BioExtract Server

Conference:  ISMB/ECCB 2009

Abstract:  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. The intent of this poster is to provide an overview of the functionality of the BioExtract Server.