This work was funded by USDA-IFAFS grant #11180 titled Web Resources for the Computation and Display of Physical Mapping Data.

Configuration file for GBrowse:
Configuration file tells GBrowse what glyphs to use to render each of the feature types. The format of these configuration files are described in GBrowse Documentation. See the GBrowse CONFIGURE_HOWTO.txt file for details. Following is the sample configuration file for Rice FPC Genome Browser.

Download/View: ricefpcchr.conf (based on Chromosome Coordiante System)

Description of sample ricefpcchr.conf file:

FPC GBrowse displays the Contigs and frameworkmarkers in the overview display. Markers, Sequences and BACs tracks are displayed in the detail view of the browser.

Marker Track Details:
Marker track displays different types of markers as described below:

• Frameworkmarkers: Displayed in red color in Marker Track
• Placementmarkers: Displayed in blue color in Marker Track
• electronicmarkers: Displayed in yellow color in Marker Track
• other markers: Displayed in green color in Marker Track