Section: New Software and Platforms

Magus

Keywords: Bioinformatics - Genomic sequence - Knowledge database

Scientific Description: MAGUS can be used on small installations with a web server and a relational database on a single machine, or scaled out in clusters or elastic clouds using Apache Cassandra for NoSQL data storage and Apache Hadoop for Map-Reduce.

Functional Description: The MAGUS genome annotation system integrates genome sequences and sequences features, in silico analyses, and views of external data resources into a familiar user interface requiring only a Web navigator. MAGUS implements annotation workflows and enforces curation standards to guarantee consistency and integrity. As a novel feature the system provides a workflow for simultaneous annotation of related genomes through the use of protein families identified by in silico analyses this has resulted in a three-fold increase in curation speed, compared to one-at-a-time curation of individual genes. This allows us to maintain standards of high-quality manual annotation while efficiently using the time of volunteer curators.

News Of The Year: Magus is now available as a Docker image, and can be integrated with other containerized services using Pleiade's Alcyone system.

• Participants: David James Sherman, Florian Lajus, Natalia Golenetskaya, Pascal Durrens and Xavier Calcas

• Partners: Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - INRA

• Contact: David James Sherman

• Publication: High-performance comparative annotation

• URL: http://magus.gforge.inria.fr