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  Guide to Annotation

ERIC uses ASAP (a systematic annotation package for community analysis of genomes); ASAP is a relational database and web interface developed to store, update and distribute genome sequence data and gene expression data collected by or in collaboration with researchers at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

ASAP was designed to facilitate ongoing community annotation of genomes and to grow with genome projects as they move from the preliminary data stage through post-sequencing functional analysis. The ASAP database includes multiple genome sequences at various stages of analysis, and gene expression data from preliminary experiments. Use of some of this preliminary data is conditional, and it is the users responsibility to read the data release policy and to verify that any use of specific data obtained through ASAP is consistent with this policy. Any questions regarding this policy or restrictions for specific data should be referred to administrator@ericbrc.org.

ASAP was developed by the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where the original application still resides. The University of Wisconsin's version of ASAP contains genomes not funded under the ERIC BRC initiative, but still useful for comparative purposes. Read-only versions of these genomes are mirrored daily and include: Escherichia coli K-12 Strain MG1655 (model organism, lab strain); Escherichia coli strain CFT073 (urinary tract pathogen); and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis IP 32953 (a the Yersinia species not supported with BRC funding). Mirrored data is indicated by the phrase "This is READ-Only data mirrored from another location" appearing in the page header below the selected genome, version, or experiment set.

ASAP is still under development and we appreciate your patience with any bugs that you might identify. Please contact us to report any problems you encounter and we will do our best to address them in a timely way.

Read more about ASAP at PubMed

ASAP developers: Nicole T. Perna, Frederick R. Blattner, Alex Byrnes, Aaron Darling, Michael Gilson, Jeremy D. Glasner, Paul Liss, Guy Plunkett III, Tejasvini Prasad, Michael Rusch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1656 Linden Dr., Madision, WI, 53706-1581.