Biomashups: the new world of exploratory bioinformatics?

Bioinformatics is dominated by online databases and sophisticated web‐accessible tools. As such, it is ideally placed to benefit from the rapid, purpose specific combination of services achievable via web mashups. The recent introduction of a number of sophisticated frameworks has greatly simplified...

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Published inConcurrency and computation Vol. 23; no. 11; pp. 1169 - 1178
Main Authors Hogan, James M., Sumitomo, Jiro, Roe, Paul, Newell, Felicity
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 10.08.2011
Subjects
Bioinformatics
Computation
Concurrency
Feasibility
Focusing
Interactive
mashups
On-line systems
Programming
Web 2.0
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Summary:Bioinformatics is dominated by online databases and sophisticated web‐accessible tools. As such, it is ideally placed to benefit from the rapid, purpose specific combination of services achievable via web mashups. The recent introduction of a number of sophisticated frameworks has greatly simplified the mashup creation process, making them accessible to scientists with limited programming expertise. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of mashups as a new approach to bioinformatic experimentation, focusing on an exploratory niche between interactive web usage and robust workflows, and attempting to identify the range of computations for which mashups may be employed. While we treat each of the major frameworks, we illustrate the ideas with a series of examples developed under the Popfly framework‡. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Bibliography:This paper was first published online 28 August 2010 and is part of the Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience from the Microsoft eScience Workshop Special Issue Volume 22, Number 17.
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DOI:10.1002/cpe.1598