title: Integrating diverse databases into an unified analysis framework: a Galaxy approach.
abstract: Recent technological advances have lead to the ability to generate large amounts of data for model and non-model organisms. Whereas, in the past, there have been a relatively small number of central repositories that serve genomic data, an increasing number of distinct specialized data repositories and resources have been established. Here, we describe a generic approach that provides for the integration of a diverse spectrum of data resources into a unified analysis framework, Galaxy (http://usegalaxy.org). This approach allows the simplified coupling of external data resources with the data analysis tools available to Galaxy users, while leveraging the native data mining facilities of the external data resources. DATABASE URL: http://usegalaxy.org.
authors.affiliation: The Galaxy Project, University Park, PA, USA. dan@bx.psu.edu
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blankenberg
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Coraor
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Von Kuster
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nekrutenko
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D019992:Databases as Topic; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics; D020407:Internet; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D012984:Software