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Robin Liechti

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Varapp: A reactive web-application for variants filtering

Summary: Varapp is an open-source web application to filter variants from large sets of exome data stored in a relational database. Varapp offers a reactive graphical user interface, very fast data pro-cessing, security and facility to save, reproduce and shareresults. Typically, a few seconds suffice to apply non-trivial filters to a set of half a million variants and extract a handful of potential clinically relevant targets. Varapp implements different scenarios for Mendelian diseases (dominant, recessive, de novo, X-linked, andcompound heterozygous), and allows searching for variants in genes or chro-mosomal regions of interest.\n\nAvailability: The application is made of a Javascript front-end and a Python back-end. Its source code is hosted at https://github.com/varapp. A demo version isavailable at https://varapp-demo.vital-it.ch. The full documentation can be found at https://varapp-demo.vital-it.ch/docs.\n\nContact: sylvain.pradervand@chuv.ch

Bioinformatics

SourceData - a semantic platform for curating and searching figures

Here we present SourceData (http://sourcedata.embo.org), a platform that allows researchers and publishers to share scientific figures and, when available, the underlying source data in a way that is machine-readable and findable. SourceData is unique in its focus on the core of scientific evidence--data presented in figures--and its capability to make papers searchable based on their data content and hence directly couple data to improved discoverability. SourceData aims at establishing a selfreinforcing data ecosystem that bridges the conventional visual and narrative description of research findings with a machine-readable representation of data and hypotheses.\n\nIn molecular and cell biology, most of the data that result from hypothesis-driven research are exclusively available in the form of figures or tables in published papers. In spite of their importance for the understanding of biological processes and human di ...

Bioinformatics