CARGO: a web portal to integrate customized biological information.
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.
Cases
Ildefonso
I
SCOMPBio Group, Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain.
Pisano
David G
DG
Andres
Eduardo
E
Carro
Angel
A
Fernández
José M
JM
Gómez-López
Gonzalo
G
Rodriguez
Jose M
JM
Vera
Jaime F
JF
Valencia
Alfonso
A
Rojas
Ana M
AM
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