title: CARGO: a web portal to integrate customized biological information.
abstract: There is a huge quantity of information generated in Life Sciences, and it is dispersed in many databases and repositories. Despite the broad availability of the information, there is a great demand for methods that are able to look for, gather and display distributed data in a standardized and friendly way. CARGO (Cancer And Related Genes Online) is a configurable biological web portal designed as a tool to facilitate, integrate and visualize results from Internet resources, independently of their native format or access method. Through the use of small agents, called widgets, supported by a Rich Internet Application (RIA) paradigm based on AJAX, CARGO provides pieces of minimal, relevant and descriptive biological information. The tool is designed to be used by experimental biologists with no training in bioinformatics. In the current state, the system presents a list of human cancer genes. Available at http://cargo.bioinfo.cnio.es.
authors.affiliation: SCOMPBio Group, Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Ildefonso
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cases
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Pisano
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Andres
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carro
authors.forename: José M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gómez-López
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.forename: Jaime F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Vera
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Valencia
authors.forename: Ana M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Rojas
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001695:Biology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface