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Biomashups: the new world of exploratory bioinformatics?
Author(s) -
Hogan James M.,
Sumitomo Jiro,
Roe Paul,
Newell Felicity
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.1598
Subject(s) - mashup , workflow , computer science , web application , world wide web , process (computing) , data science , web service , web 2.0 , database , programming language
Bioinformatics is dominated by online databases and sophisticated web‐accessible tools. As such, it is ideally placed to benefit from the rapid, purpose specific combination of services achievable via web mashups. The recent introduction of a number of sophisticated frameworks has greatly simplified the mashup creation process, making them accessible to scientists with limited programming expertise. In this paper we investigate the feasibility of mashups as a new approach to bioinformatic experimentation, focusing on an exploratory niche between interactive web usage and robust workflows, and attempting to identify the range of computations for which mashups may be employed. While we treat each of the major frameworks, we illustrate the ideas with a series of examples developed under the Popfly framework ‡ . Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.