To access up-to-date biological data sources across multiple heterogeneous databases and analysis tools distributed all over the networks, and to combine them into workflows, we propose a grid-based system for integrating bioinformatics applications, which we named “Bioinformatics: Ask Any Questions (BAAQ)”. BAAQ allows scientists to store and manage biological data and bioinformatics tools as ...

Despite the central place held by bioinformatics in modern life sciences and related areas, it has only recently been integrated to a limited extent into high-school teaching and learning programs. Here we describe the assessment of a learning environment entitled 'Bioinformatics in the Service of Biotechnology'. Students' learning outcomes and attitudes toward the bioinformatics learning envir...

The demand for even higher performance in bioinformatics data analysis continues to grow rapidly as the volumes of data generated by next generation sequencing equipment soar. Traditional acceleration techniques historically used for faster bioinformatics application will individually be insufficient to meet the demand and increased analysis complexity, requiring an integrated heterogeneous acc...