Toppar: an interactive browser for viewing association study results

Bioinformatics. 2018 Jun 1;34(11):1922-1924. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx840.

Abstract

Summary: 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.

Availability and implementation: 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.

Contact: totajuliusd@gmail.com.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Data Visualization*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Genome-Wide Association Study / methods*
  • Internet
  • Software*