Bioinformatics Vol. 19 no. 7 2003
Pages 901-902
© 2003 Oxford University Press
Applications Note |
BioQuery: an object framework for building queries to biomedical databases
Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, BICC Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Received on September 10, 2002
; revised on November 5, 2002
; accepted on November 13, 2002
Summary: BioQuery is an application that helps scientists automate database searches. Users can build and store queries to public biomedical databases, and receive periodic updates on the results of those queries when new data is available. The application is implemented on a portable object framework that can provide database-searching capability to other applications. This framework is easily extensible, allowing users to develop plug-ins that provide access to new databases. BioQuery thus provides end-users with a complete database searching interface and updating service, and gives developers a toolkit to provide database-searching capability to their applications.
Availability: Free to all users: http://www.bioquery.org
Contact: support{at}bioquery.org