Browser for the Genomics Unified Schema ( Gus )

by CONRAD V. IBAÑEZ (Under the Direction of Eileen T. Kraemer) ABSTRACT The Genomics Unified Schema (GUS) is a relational database schema that supports a wide range of data types including genomics, gene expression, transcript assemblies, proteomics, and many others. Together with the GUS Application Framework and the GUS Web Development Kit (WDK), GUS is used by many genomics projects and groups to store diverse data and provide query-based websites for the scientific community. As the number of bioinformatics projects and groups using GUS as their schema of choice for storing information in their respective fields of study continues to grow, there is a need for an application allowing users to effectively browse information about GUS tables, especially relationships among them. Not only will such an application help current users understand the schema, but it will facilitate the popularity and use of GUS overall in genomics research. Thus, we introduce GUS SB, a schema browser and relationship viewer for GUS.