Genome Workbench Web Services
Genome Workbench provides several facilities for interacting with the
web. From inside of Genome Workbench, you can link out to data hosted
at NCBI - for example, to view the gene report of a given gene. In
addition, Genome Workbench provides some facilities for enriching web
pages themselves.
- General Linkout Service
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The Linkour Service provides a quick way to formulate a link to load a
specific piece of data into Genome Workbench. Using these links, a
web page can be set up to interact with an instance of Genome Workbench
on a client computer.
- Gene Linkout Service
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The Gene Linkout Service provides a service specific to Entrez Gene,
preparing a gene record for loading into Genome Workbench. This gene
record incldues a wealth of information about the sequence dependencies
of a given gene, and includes references to publications available at
the time of retrieval.
- Contig Overlap Service
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The Contig Overlap service provides a specialized service for
evaluating overlaps of abutting genomic sequences in sequence
assemblies. As a part of the curation of the reference assemblies of
several genomes, NCBI maintains a database of curated alignments
between adjacent components in scaffold assemblies. This service
provides a window into this data.
