The Bioverse API and web application.
The Bioverse is a framework for creating, warehousing and presenting biological information based on hierarchical levels of organisation. The framework is guided by a deeper philosophy of desiring to represent all relationships between all components of biological systems towards the goal of a wholistic picture of organismal biology. Data from various sources are combined into a single repository and a uniform interface is exposed to access it. The power of the approach of the Bioverse is that, due to its inclusive nature, patterns emerge from the acquired data and new predictions are made. The implementation of this repository (beginning with acquisition of source data, processing in a pipeline, and concluding with storage in a relational database) and interfaces to the data contained in it, from a programmatic application interface to a user friendly web application, are discussed.
Guerquin
Michal
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Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
McDermott
Jason
J
Frazier
Zach
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Samudrala
Ram
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D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration; D008954:Models, Biological; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface