GDVTK is a general bioinformatics toolkit for genome data visualization especially for building web based genome data visualization applications running on J2EE servers (JBoss, Tomcat and J2EE server). It provides a framework for building everything from simple scripts to complete applications. GDVTK is designed to be used as a library, so to make it usable we must:

• Provide extensive API documentation as well as a clear overview of how it all fits together.
• Give simple examples that show how to use the APIs.

The code-base is open source, and we encourage you to modify it or fix bugs, at the terms of GNU General Public License

The field of molecular biology is producing large amounts of genome data in recent years and will continue to grow exponentially especially after sucessful completion of human and mouse genomes. There are many challenges for designing a resuable Java APIs for genome data visualization.

• Complexity of genomic data
• Genomic data modeling
• Genomic data visualization
• Robust Java APIs for generic model organism genomic data

The following documents will assist you in downloading, installing GDVTK, and using many of the GDVTK features to develop J2EE application.

• Download Download the release from Sourceforge.net with all the documents
• Installation - See the documents from downloaded packages
• Visualizing data by genomic location Visualizing genomic data based on the genomic location
• APIs - GDVTK APIs
• Search the Dev Mailing List