Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on January 3, 2008
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm602
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Automated Programming for Bioinformatics Algorithm Deployment
1Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Division of Health Science and Technology, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, 2Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 3Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Dr. Gil Alterovitz, E-mail: gil{at}mit.edu
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Summary: Many bioinformatics solutions suffer from the lack of usable interface/platform from which results can be analyzed and visualized. Overcoming this hurdle would allow for more widespread dissemination of bioinformatics algorithms within the biological and medical communities. The algorithms should be accessible without extensive technical support or programming knowledge. Here, we propose is a dynamic wizard platform that provides users with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for most Java bioinformatics library toolkits. The application interface is generated in real-time based on the original source code. This platform lets developers focus on designing algorithms and biologists/physicians on testing hypotheses and analyzing results.
Availability: The open source code can be downloaded from: http://bcl.med.harvard.edu/proteomics/proj/AP/
Contact: gil{at}mit.edu
Associate Editor: Dr. Chris Stoeckert
Received on July 28, 2007; revised on December 1, 2007; accepted on December 1, 2007