Background The production of peroxide and superoxide is an inevitable consequence of
aerobic metabolism, and while these particular'reactive oxygen species'(ROSs) can exhibit a …

Data integration is a perennial issue in bioinformatics, with many systems being developed
and many technologies offered as a panacea for its resolution. The fact that it is still a …

Life sciences research is based on individuals, often with diverse skills, assembled into
research groups. These groups use their specialist expertise to address scientific problems …

Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically,
thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a …

Abstract The use of Web Services to enable programmatic access to on-line bioinformatics is
becoming increasingly important in the Life Sciences. However, their number, distribution …

Wiki pages and commenting Biology is an information-driven science. Large-scale data sets
from genomics, physiology, population genetics and imaging are driving research at a …

The reasoning tasks that can be performed with semantic web service descriptions depend
on the quality of the domain ontologies used to create these descriptions. However, building …

Current middleware solutions, eg, application servers and Web services, are very complex
software products that are hard to tame because of intricacies of distributed systems. Their …

The adoption of agent technologies and multi-agent systems constitutes an emerging area
in bioinformatics. In this article, we report on the activity of the Working Group on Agents in …

Motivation Numerous software utilities operating on mass spectrometry (MS) data are
described in the literature and provide specific operations as building blocks for the …