9
May 2002
Bioinformatics: Online organization
The field of bioinformatics is dominated by rival groups, each promoting its own websites, services and data formats, and thus hindering researchers who typically need to integrate data from many online sources. So argues Lincoln Stein. He suggests that the emerging technology of web services is the best way to allow full exploitation of biological data, providing online databases with a consistent and familiar user interface. Implementation of web services is some years away so, in the meantime, Stein proposes a bioinformatics data-provider's code of conduct to maximize the usefulness and reusability of biological data.
Creating a bioinformatics nation
LINCOLN
STEIN
A web-services model will allow biological data to be fully exploited.
Nature 417, 119–120 (9 May 2002)
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