Journal article
ORBIT: An integrated environment for user-customized bioinformatics tools
Bioinformatics, Vol.15(10), pp.847-851
1999
Abstract
MOTIVATION: There are a large number of computational programs freely available to bioinformaticians via a client/server, web-based environment. However, the client interface to these tools (typically an html form page) cannot be customized from the client side as it is created by the service provider. The form page is usually generic enough to cater for a wide range of users. However, this implies that a user cannot set as 'default' advanced program parameters on the form or even customize the interface to his/her specific requirements or preferences. Currently, there is a lack of end-user interface environments that can be modified by the user when accessing computer programs available on a remote server running on an intranet or over the Internet. RESULTS: We have implemented a client/server system called ORBIT (Online Researcher's Bioinformatics Interface Tools) where individual clients can have interfaces created and customized to command-line-driven, server-side programs. Thus, Internet-based interfaces can be tailored to a user's specific bioinformatic needs. As interfaces are created on the client machine independent of the server, there can be different interfaces to the same server-side program to cater for different parameter settings. The interface customization is relatively quick (between 10 and 60 min) and all client interfaces are integrated into a single modular environment which will run on any computer platform supporting Java. The system has been developed to allow for a number of future enhancements and features. ORBIT represents an important advance in the way researchers gain access to bioinformatics tools on the Internet.
Details
- Title
- ORBIT: An integrated environment for user-customized bioinformatics tools
- Authors/Creators
- M.I. Bellgard (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityH.L. Hiew (Author/Creator)A. Hunter (Author/Creator)M. Wiebrands (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Bioinformatics, Vol.15(10), pp.847-851
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Identifiers
- 991005545438307891
- Copyright
- 1999 Oxford University Press
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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