STAR: an integrated solution to management and visualization of sequencing data.

Tao Wang1, Jie Liu, Li Shen

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA, Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA, The ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia, Key Laboratory for Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China, Genomic Analysis Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

Summary

STAR is a web application for visualizing and analyzing complex next-generation sequencing (NGS) data. It offers an integrated platform for online data management and track-based analysis, simplifying NGS data exploration.

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