solQTL: a Nexus for Phenotype, Genome and Expression Data

solQTL (http://solgenomics.net/qtl) is a web application for dynamically linking phenotype of complex traits to their underlying genetic causes. It has a user-friendly web-interface to upload raw quantitative trait loci (QTL) data to the Sol Genomics Network (SGN, http://solgenomics.net) database and interactively runs QTL analyses using user-specified statistical methods. Predicted QTL regions are automatically and seamlessly cross-linked to annotated genomes and genetic maps, with tools such as GBrowse and SGN’s comparative map viewer. This deep cross-referencing of predicted QTLs to relevant genomic, expression, and phenotypic data at SGN and external databases will help researchers identify potential candidate genes and more closely linked markers, and better understand the underlying genetics of complex traits.