The Firegoose: two-way integration of diverse data from different bioinformatics web resources with desktop applications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information resources on the World Wide Web play an indispensable role in modern biology. But integrating data from multiple sources is often encumbered by the need to reformat data files, convert between naming systems, or perform ongoing maintenance of local copies of public databases. Opportunities for new ways of combining and re-using data are arising as a result of the increasing use of web protocols to transmit structured data.

Results

The Firegoose, an extension to the Mozilla Firefox web browser, enables data transfer between web sites and desktop tools. As a component of the Gaggle integration framework, Firegoose can also exchange data with Cytoscape, the R statistical package, Multiexperiment Viewer (MeV), and several other popular desktop software too

SUBMITTER: Bare JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2211326 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature