title: FLOSYS--a web-accessible workflow system for protocol-driven biomolecular sequence analysis.
abstract: FLOSYS is an interactive web-accessible bioinformatics workflow system designed to assist biologists in multi-step data analyses. FLOSYS allows the user to create complex analysis pathways (protocols) graphically, similar to drawing a flowchart: icons representing particular bioinformatics tools are dragged and dropped onto a canvas and lines connecting those icons are drawn to specify the relationships between the tools. In addition, FLOSYS permits to select input-data, execute the protocol and store the results in a personal workspace. The three-tier architecture of FLOSYS has been implemented in Java and uses a relational database system together with new technologies for distributed and web computing such as CORBA, RMI, JSP and JDBC. The prototype of FLOSYS, which is part of the bioinformatics workbench AnaBench, is accessible on-line at http://malawimonas.bcm.umontreal.ca: 8091/anabench. The entire package is available on request to academic groups who wish to have a customized local analysis environment for research or teaching.
authors.affiliation: The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Evolutionary Biology. Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, 2900, Boul. Edouard Montpetit, local G-312, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada. ebadidi@uaeu.ac.ae
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Badidi
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Burger
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003196:Computer Graphics / Q000639:trends; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000639:trends; D030541:Databases, Genetic / Q000639:trends; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D011381:Programming Languages; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D009696:Nucleic Acids; D011506:Proteins