Abstract The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (https://www. sib. swiss) creates, maintains
and disseminates a portfolio of reliable and state-of-the-art bioinformatics services and …

Abstract ExPASy (http://www. expasy. org) has worldwide reputation as one of the main
bioinformatics resources for proteomics. It has now evolved, becoming an extensible and …

Motivation: Advancing the search, publication and integration of bioinformatics tools and
resources demands consistent machine-understandable descriptions. A comprehensive …

Abstract The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has been providing access to
mainstream databases and tools in bioinformatics since 1997. In addition to the traditional …

Motivation: For the biologist, running bioinformatics analyses involves a time-consuming
management of data and tools. Users need support to organize their work, retrieve …

Genomic and post-genomic biological research has provided fine-grain insights into the
molecular processes of life, but also threatens to drown biomedical researchers in data …

Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) is a project run by the European Bioinformatics Institute
(EBI) that aims to provide assignments of terms from the Gene Ontology (GO) resource to …

As the cost of sequencing drops rapidly, the amount of 'omics data increases exponentially,
making data visualization and interpretation—'tertiary 'analysis a bottleneck. Specialized …

Life sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to
improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these …

Background Modern data generation techniques used in distributed systems biology
research projects often create datasets of enormous size and diversity. We argue that in …