BioBIKE -- Biological Integrated Knowledge Environment
What you can do:
Use to combine biological tools, data, and knowledge in novel and possibly complex ways.
Highlights:
- BioBIKE (biobike.csbc.vcu.edu) is a web-based environment for biologists.
- It is composed of three integrated components: a biological knowledge base, a graphical programming interface and an extensible set of tools.
- Each of the five current BioBIKE instances provides all available information (genomic, metabolic, experimental) appropriate to a given research community.
- The BioBIKE programming language and graphical programming interface employ familiar operations to help users combine functions and information to conduct biologically meaningful analyses.
- Many commonly used tools, such as Blast and PHYLIP, are built-in, allowing users to access them within the same interface and to pass results from one to another.
- Users may also invent their own tools, packaging complex expressions under a single name, which is immediately made accessible through the graphical interface.
- It represents a partial solution to the difficult question of how to enable those with no background in computer programming to work directly and creatively with mass biological information.
Keywords:
- knowledge base
- data analysis
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This record last updated: 09-11-2009