title: Branch: an interactive, web-based tool for testing hypotheses and developing predictive models.
abstract: Branch is a web application that provides users with the ability to interact directly with large biomedical datasets. The interaction is mediated through a collaborative graphical user interface for building and evaluating decision trees. These trees can be used to compose and test sophisticated hypotheses and to develop predictive models. Decision trees are built and evaluated based on a library of imported datasets and can be stored in a collective area for sharing and re-use.
  
  
  
  Branch is hosted at http://biobranch.org/ and the open source code is available at http://bitbucket.org/sulab/biobranch/
  
  
  
  asu@scripps.edu or bgood@scripps.edu
  
  
  
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Karthik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gangavarapu
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Vyshakh
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Babji
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.|Avera Health, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Meißner
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Su
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Benjamin M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Good
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D066264:Datasets as Topic; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012984:Software