SIBIOS: a system for the integration of bioinformatics services

Author

Miled, Z.B. ; Gao, Ning ; Bukhres, Omran ; Lu, Lingma ; Li, Nianhua ; He, Yue ; Mahoui, Malika ; Chen, Jessica

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

38145

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

83

Abstract

Modern biological and chemical studies rely on life science databases as well as sophisticated software tools (e.g., homology search tools, modeling and visualization tools). These tools often have to be combined and integrated in order to support a given study. SIBIOS (system for the integration of bioinformatics services) serves this purpose. The services are both life science database search services and software tools. The task engine is the core component of SIBIOS. It supports the execution of dynamic workflows that incorporate multiple bioinformatics services. The architecture of SIBIOS, the approaches used to address the heterogeneity as well as interoperability of bioinformatics services, including data integration are presented in this paper.

Keywords

Internet; data mining; integrated software; medical information systems; middleware; query processing; workflow management software; Web-based applications; bioinformatics service integration system; database search tools; dynamic workflow; life science databases; Bioinformatics; DNA; Data mining; Helium; OWL; Peptides; Proteins; Sequences; Software tools; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, 2004. CLADE 2004. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2115-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLADE.2004.1309094

Filename

1309094