Validation and quality assurance for genome browser database exports

Background A genome browser transition utility designed in our lab, FPD2GB2 (Fungal Project Database to GBrowse 2), exports data from a custom database used by the Fungal Endophytes Genome Project [1,2]. Designed as a collection of scripts, FPD2GB2 outputs the contents of a locally developed genome annotation database into the standard GFF3 format, allowing for bulk import of data into the GBrowse2 genome browser [3]. In short, FPD2GB2 is a collection of scripts designed to export data encoded in the Fungal Project Database format into a format which can be easily imported into GBrowse 2, namely GFF3.