Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: Understanding biological complexity demands a combination of high-throughput data and interdisciplinary skills. One way to bring to bear the necessary combination of data types and expertise is by encapsulating domain knowledge in software and composing that software to create a customized data analysis environment. To this end, simple flexible strategies are needed for interconnecting heterogeneous software tools and enabling data exchange between them. Drawing on our own work and that of others, we present several strategies for interoperability and their consequences, in particular, a set of simple data structures--list, matrix, network, table and tuple--that have proven sufficient to achieve a high degree of interoperability. We provide a few guidelines for the development of future software that will function as part of an interoperable community of software tools for biological data analysis and visualization.
Source: Briefings in Bioinformatics
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs074
Authors: J. C. Bare, N. S. Baliga
Institutions: Sage Bionetworks, Institute for Systems Biology
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,885
Awards: G1286236842, G1337544421, G1414775356, G1581387393, Interrogation of systems level mechanisms controlling DNA repair processes, G1816284028, G222768804, G223002938, HYDROGEN REGULATION AND GLOBAL RESPONSES TO ELECTRON, CARBON AND NITROGEN SOURCES OF METHANOCCUS MARIPALUDIS, G3083819904, G3432487278, MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES, GENES AND GENOMICS INTEGRATED EFFICIENTLY (MAGGIE): COMPONENT 3: SYSTEMS APPROACH IN A MULTI-ORGANISM STRATEGY TO UNDERSTAND BI, G365575497, G419881185, G42916606, G4501827968, G498139845, G5403153754, MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES, GENES AND GENOMICS INTEGRATED EFFICIENTLY (MAGGIE): COMPONENT 3: SYSTEMS APPROACH IN A MULTI-ORGANISM STRATEGY TO UNDERSTAND BI, G6652958823, G7452799666, G7787287669, G805243471, HYDROGEN REGULATION AND GLOBAL RESPONSES TO ELECTRON, CARBON AND NITROGEN SOURCES OF METHANOCCUS MARIPALUDIS, Quantitative Systems Biology, G969889393
OpenAlex ID: W2107544287