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Bioinformatic Workflow Builder Interface
A Web-based working environment from which one can build and execute bioinformatic workflows and share analysis processes.
Date Posted: March 23, 2004
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What is Bioinformatic Workflow Builder Interface (BioWBI)?
BioWBI is an easy-to-use, Web-based working environment from which a Life Sciences researcher and/or a research community can build and execute bioinformatic workflows and share their analysis processes.
This system is a prototype of an e-business Bioinformatic Platform. It is an innovative, enterprise-level, Web-based comprehensive platforms able to
- integrate local and remote Life Science databases and data
- provide a local database submission and management tool
- supply a query and a retrieval system tailored to the extraction of data
- provide a collection of analysis programs and analysis support tools able to meet and satisfy all the analysis needs of the platform's end users.
How does it work? Through BioWBI, life science researchers can build and execute "bioinformatics workflows" that can act on both (uploaded) local and remote databases. Main features of such a system include
- simple and intuitive graphical workflow-building mechanisms
- enhanced design of analysis process using powerful operators as well as a built-in Bioinformatic Algorithm Knowledge-Base
- effective and proficient ways of accessing bioinformatics data sources, overcoming troubles related to their heterogeneity
- a more logical approach to bioinformatics analysis that bypasses technicalities related to traditional algorithms' execution
- possibility of storing frequently-used sets of data and analysis workflows
- a careful and detailed report about each analysis workflow execution.
BioWBI can be used in several ways. It can constitute the basic element of large bioinformatic portals that private or public research groups can activate in order to supply simplified bioinformatic analysis services to end users, even in an on-demand mode. For example, a pharmaceutical company can use this technology to set up a large internal portal for covering the need for bioinformatic workflow analysis related to target discovery and identification, two early phases of the drug discovery process.
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BioWBI was created by the Italian IBM BCS-AIS Life Sciences Practice team. This is a specialized consulting team whose main focus is data and information integration and mining for life sciences areas such as pharma and research discovery (bioinformatic portal and integrated platforms) and clinical genomics (information-based medicine). The team creates and supports leading-edge life science applications as well as consulting projects for extending, transforming, and accelerating the adoption of advanced e-workplace technology for life sciences researchers. The IBM BCS-AIS Life Sciences Practice team is part of Java Technology Center at IBM Semea Sud, located in Bari (Italy).
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