Summary: Yeast Exploration Tool Integrator (YETI) is a novel bioinformatics tool for the integrated visualization and analysis of functional genomic data sets from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Availability: YETI is freely available for use o

YETI

Fig.1.YETIscreenshots:(A)genomeschematic;(B)chromosomescrolling;(C)proteininteractionmap;(D)interactivedatatable.

bioinformaticianstocarryoutcollectiveanalysesofthedatasets.Inaddition,twonewsectionsarecurrentlyunderdevel-opment.ATranscriptomeSectionwillprovideameansforeffectivelyvisualizingandanalysingdatafromgeneexpres-sionmicroarraysusingbothclusteringalgorithmsandprin-cipalcomponentanalysisandaCellSectionwillprovideaccesstometabolicpathways.AlthoughYETI’sdesignisspe-ci callyaimedatS.cerevisiae,theframeworkoftheprogramcouldbeappliedtootherorganismswithease.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

WewouldliketothankProf.JeanBeggsandherlaboratoryattheUniversityofEdinburghfortheircontinuedsupportandadvice.R.J.O.issupportedbyaSpecialBioinformaticsStudentshipfromtheMedicalResearchCouncil.

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