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

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The Gaggle: An open-source software system for integrating bioinformatics software and data sources
Background: Systems biologists work with many kinds of data, from many different sources, using a variety of software tools. Each of these tools typically excels at one type of analysis, such as of microarrays, of metabolic networks and of predicted protein structure. A crucial challenge is to combine the capabilities of these (and other forthcoming) data resources and tools to create a data exploration and analysis environment that does justice to the variety and complexity of systems biology data sets. A solution to this problem should recognize that data types, formats and software in this high throughput age of biology are constantly changing. Results: In this paper we describe the Gaggle -a simple, open-source Java software environment that helps to solve the problem of software and database integration. Guided by the classic software engineering strategy of separation of concerns and a policy of semantic flexibility, it integrates existing popular programs and web resources into...
Paul T. Shannon, David J. Reiss, Richard Bonneau,
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where BMCBI
Authors Paul T. Shannon, David J. Reiss, Richard Bonneau, Nitin S. Baliga
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