Toppar: an interactive browser for viewing association study results

<strong>Summary</strong> Data integration and visualization help geneticists make sense of large amounts of data. To help facilitate interpretation of genetic association data we developed Toppar, a customizable visualization tool that stores results from association studies and enables...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Juliusdottir, T, Banasik, K, Robertson, NR, Mott, R, McCarthy, MI
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
Description
Summary:<strong>Summary</strong> Data integration and visualization help geneticists make sense of large amounts of data. To help facilitate interpretation of genetic association data we developed Toppar, a customizable visualization tool that stores results from association studies and enables browsing over multiple results, by combining features from existing tools and linking to appropriate external databases. <strong>Availability and implementation</strong> Detailed information on Toppar’s features and functionality are on our website http://mccarthy.well.ox.ac.uk/toppar/docs along with instructions on how to download, install and run Toppar. Our online version of Toppar is accessible from the website and can be test-driven using Firefox, Safari or Chrome on sub-sets of publicly available genome-wide association study anthropometric waist and body mass index data (Locke et al., 2015; Shungin et al., 2015) from the Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits consortium.