The Genomic HyperBrowser is a web-based system for statistical analysis of genomic annotation data. The primary focus is on statistical inference on relations between genomic tracks, though simpler descriptive statistics and analysis of individual tracks is also supported. An example of analysis is to investigate the relationship between histone modifications and gene expression, using ChIP-based tracks of histone modifications versus tracks of genes marked with expression values from a microarray experiment. The web server includes a sizable collection of annotation tracks, and also supports user-uploaded tracks. The Genomic HyperBrowser runs as a stand-alone system, but is tightly integrated with the Galaxy system

Galaxy (computational biology)

Galaxy is a scientific workflow, data integration, and data and analysis persistence and publishing platform that aims to make computational biology accessible to research scientists that do not have computer programming experience...

for handling of genomic data, especially at the user interface side.

History

The Genomic HyperBrowser has been developed since early 2008 in Oslo, Norway, and went public in December 2010.