Web servicing the biological office
Department of Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 80333 München, Germany
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Summary: Biologists routinely use Microsoft Office applications for standard analysis tasks. Despite ubiquitous internet resources, information needed for everyday work is often not directly and seamlessly available. Here we describe a very simple and easily extendable mechanism using Web Services to enrich standard MS Office applications with internet resources. We demonstrate its capabilities by providing a Web-based thesaurus for biological objects, which maps names to database identifiers and vice versa via an appropriate synonym list. The client application ProTag makes these features available in MS Office applications using Smart Tags and Add-Ins.
Availability: http://services.bio.ifi.lmu.de/prothesaurus/
Contact: prothesaurus{at}bio.ifi.lmu.de
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