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Apollo is a genome annotation viewer and editor. It was developed as a collaboration between the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (part of the FlyBase consortium) and The Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. Apollo allows researchers to explore genomic annotations at many levels of detail, and to perform expert annotation curation, all in a graphical environment. It was used by the FlyBase biologists to construct the Release 3 annotations on the finished Drosophila melanogaster genome, and is also a primary vehicle for sharing these annotations with the community. The Generic Model Organism Database (GMOD) project, which aims to provide a complete ready-to-use toolkit for analyzing whole genomes, has adopted Apollo as its annotation workbench. Apollo is a Java application that can be downloaded and run on Windows, Mac OS X, or any Unix-type system (including Linux).
- Download Apollo (Version 1.6.5, last updated June 29, 2006)
- Read a paper about Apollo:
Apollo: a sequence annotation editor. Lewis SE, Searle SMJ, Harris N, Gibson M, Iyer V, Ricter J, Wiel C, Bayraktaroglu L, Birney E, Crosby MA, Kaminker JS, Matthews B, Prochnik SE, Smith CD, Tupy JL, Rubin GM, Misra S, Mungall CJ, Clamp ME (2002). Genome Biology 2002, 3(12):research0082 - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Apollo userguide (also included when you download Apollo)
- Subscribe to the apollo mailing list
- If you are a developer, you may wish to download the Apollo source
from SourceForge.
Like many GMOD components, Apollo is distributed under the terms of the Artistic License. - For developers: Apollo javadocs
This work was supported by NIH grant HG00750 to G.M.R., by NIH Grant HG00739 to FlyBase (to W.M. Gelbart), by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and by Programme Grant G822559 from the Wellcome Trust.