START: a system for flexible analysis of hundreds of genomic signal tracks in few lines of SQL-like queries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A genomic signal track is a set of genomic intervals associated with values of various types, such as measurements from high-throughput experiments. Analysis of signal tracks requires complex computational methods, which often make the analysts focus too much on the detailed computational steps rather than on their biological questions.

Results

Here we propose Signal Track Query Language (STQL) for simple analysis of signal tracks. It is a Structured Query Language (SQL)-like declarative language, which means one only specifies what computations need to be done but not how these computations are to be carried out. STQL provides a rich set of constructs for manipulating genomic intervals and their values. To run STQL queries, we have developed the Signal Track Anal

SUBMITTER: Zhu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5610441 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature