FPC Web Viewer V1.0

Search WheatDB

FPC software from Sanger Center, UK is used to assembly contigs. FPC is an interactive program for building contigs from fingerprinted clones for large scale sequencing projects, which can create contig maps with assocaited markers and then output to a fpc file (*.fpc). The contig maps and related data can be viewed through FPC software under Unix/Linux systems. To display contig maps, related data of fingerprinted clones, and associated markers on the web, a FPC Web Viewer was designed and developed.

FPC Web Viewer is designed to be a client-server-database application interactively display all contig maps and clones with associated markers for multiple FPC databases on the Web and connect to wEST and GeneBank databases. The relational-object database system PostgreSQL is adopted to store the data of clones, markers and contigs. A utility Java program FPC Data Manager was developed to convert FPC flat data (*.fpc) from FPC software, *.bands and *.sizes from Image program (Sanger Center, UK) into relational databases, to manage FPC databases, and to submit data to other public databases (wEST, GeneBank). Java technology (Servlet and Applet) , perl and HTML are used to develop the application server and clients.

The contig maps of D genome FPC database and other 7 databases from other physical mapping projects ( rice, maize, arabidopsis, sorghum, mouse and human) can be viewed through FPC Web Viewer.