Research Projects for Fellows, 2009
P03: Development of bioinformatics workflows on the BioExtract Server
| Short Title: |
Development of bioinformatics workflows on the BioExtract Server |
| Mentors: |
Dr. Volker Brendel |
| Description: |
Genome research is becoming increasingly dependent on access to multiple, distributed data sources
and bioinformatic tools. The importance of integration across distributed databases and Web services will
continue to grow as the number of requisite resources expands. Use of bioinformatic workflows has seen
considerable growth in recent years as scientific research becomes increasingly dependent on the analysis
of large sets of data and the use of distributed resources. The BioExtract Server (http://bioextract.org)
is a Web-based data integration application designed to consolidate, analyze, and serve data
from heterogeneous biomolecular databases. It allows researchers, via a Web browser, to
query multiple data sources, save query results as searchable data sets, execute local and
Web-accessible analytic tools, and create computational workflows. In this project we seek
to develop some practical workflows by following the data acquisition and analyses in selected
published papers and trying to generalize that work to facilitate future studies on similar data sets.
This project would be appropriate for a student with biological background who'd wish to develop
bioinformatic workflow approaches to common sequence analysis problems.
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| Web Resources: |
www.bioextract.org |
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