title: GaggleBridge: collaborative data analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Tools aiding in collaborative data analysis are becoming ever more important as researchers work together over long distances. We present an extension to the Gaggle framework, which has been widely adopted as a tool to enable data exchange between different analysis programs on one computer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Our program, GaggleBridge, transparently extends this functionality to allow data exchange between Gaggle users at different geographic locations using network communication. GaggleBridge can automatically set up SSH tunnels to traverse firewalls while adding some security features to the Gaggle communication.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  GaggleBridge is available as open-source software implemented in the Java language at http://it.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/gb.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  florian.battke@uni-tuebingen.de
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Integrative Transcriptomics, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany. florian.battke@uni-tuebingen.de
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Battke
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Symons
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Herbig
authors.forename: Kay
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nieselt
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software