Integrating sequence and structural biology with DAS.
BMC Bioinformatics
; 8: 333, 2007 Sep 12.
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| ID: mdl-17850653
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is a network protocol for exchanging biological data. It is frequently used to share annotations of genomes and protein sequence.RESULTS:
Here we present several extensions to the current DAS 1.5 protocol. These provide new commands to share alignments, three dimensional molecular structure data, add the possibility for registration and discovery of DAS servers, and provide a convention how to provide different types of data plots. We present examples of web sites and applications that use the new extensions. We operate a public registry of DAS sources, which now includes entries for more than 250 distinct sources.CONCLUSION:
Our DAS extensions are essential for the management of the growing number of services and exchange of diverse biological data sets. In addition the extensions allow new types of applications to be developed and scientific questions to be addressed. The registry of DAS sources is available at http//www.dasregistry.org.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Sistemas de Gerenciamento de Base de Dados
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Interface Usuário-Computador
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Armazenamento e Recuperação da Informação
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Análise de Sequência
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Biologia Computacional
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Internet
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Bases de Dados Genéticas
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Bioinformatics
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido