EMBL sequence submission system--an object-oriented approach to developing interactive data collection systems through the WWW

MOTIVATION To enable a new way of submitting sequence information to the EMBL nucleotide database through the WWW. This process of data submission is long and complex, and calls for efficient and user-friendly mechanisms for collection and validation of information. RESULTS Described here is a generic, object-oriented data-submission system that is being used for the EMBL database, but can easily, be tailored to serve several data-submission schemes with a relatively short development and implementation time. The program provides the user with a friendly interface that breaks the complex task into smaller, more manageable tasks and, on the other hand, acts as a pre-filter, scanning errors online.