The Gaggle: An open-source software system for integrating bioinformatics software and data sources

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Shannon, Paul T ^a   Reiss, David J ^a   Bonneau, Richard ^a,b   Baliga, Nitin S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS SOFTWARE; DATABASE INTEGRATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROARRAY EXPRESSIONS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; PROTEIN-DNA INTERACTIONS; SEPARATION OF CONCERNS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; METABOLISM; MICROARRAYS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; TOOLS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PROTEINS;

RICIN;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DATA BASE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; SEMANTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSER; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33646743767     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-176     Document Type: Article

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