Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on September 7, 2004
Bioinformatics 2005 21(3):415-417; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti005
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Bioinformatics vol. 21 issue 3 © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved.
Capturing biological information with class–responsibility–collaboration cards
1 Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology 135 Cannon Street, P.O. Box 250835, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
2 Bioinformatics Core Facility Medical University of South Carolina 135 Cannon Street, P.O. Box 250835, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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Summary: Class–responsibility–collaboration (CRC) cards have been used extensively in the software industry for defining complex object-oriented software requirements. We have adapted this tool to capture information about biological components, collaborators and responsibilities within these collaborations, which is not captured by current annotation tools. CRC cards should provide a common ground that will facilitate communication between biologist and computer scientists.
Availability: A CRC card template, XML representation and XML schema are freely available at http://people.musc.edu/~zhengw/CRCCard/CRC_Card_Index.html
Contact: zhengw{at}musc.edu
Supplementary information: Supplemental Figures 1–4.