ZENBU-Reports: a graphical web-portal builder for interactive visualization and dissemination of genome-scale data

Abstract

In the genomic era, data dissemination and visualization is an integral part of scientific publications and research projects involving international consortia producing massive genome-wide data sets, intra-organizational collaborations, or individual labs. However, creating custom supporting websites is oftentimes impractical due to the required programming effort, web server infrastructure, and data storage facilities, as well as the long-term maintenance burden. ZENBU-Reports (https://fantom.gsc.riken.jp/zenbu/reports) is a web application to create interactive scientific web portals by using graphical interfaces while providing storage and secured collaborative sharing for data uploaded by users. ZENBU-Reports provides the scientific visualization elements commonly used in supplementary websites, publications and presentations, presenting a complete solution for the interactive display and dissemination of data and analysis results during the full lifespan of a scientific project both during the active research phase and after publication of the results.