This brief meeting review summarizes the recommendations of NSF and NPGI funded bioinformaticians concerning the future requirements for plant bioinformatics systems and databases.

The Bioinformatics Links Directory is an online community resource that contains a directory of freely available tools, databases, and resources for bioinformatics and molecular biology research. The listing of the servers published in this and previous issues of Nucleic Acids Research together with other useful tools and websites represents a rich repository of resources that are openly provid...

VISUALIZATION, ANALYSIS AND MODELLING by SHRAVYA S. NIMMAGADDA (Under the Direction of John A. Miller) ABSTRACT Glycan biosynthesis is the process by which glycans are built in the cells. Information about the process is available from several Web accessible databases, published papers, experimental data produced at the Complex Carbohydrates Research Center (CCRC) as well as knowledge accumulat...

We report from the second ESF Programme on Functional Genomics workshop on Data Integration, which covered topics including the status of biological pathways databases in existing consortia; pathways as part of bioinformatics infrastructures; design, creation and formalization of biological pathways databases; generating and supporting pathway data and interoperability of databases with other e...

Bioinformatics skills have become essential for many research areas; however, the availability of qualified researchers is usually lower than the demand and training to increase the number of able bioinformaticians is an important task for the bioinformatics community. When conducting training or hands-on tutorials, the lack of control over the analysis tools and repositories often results in u...

The present invention is in the field of bioinformatics, particularly as it pertains to gene prediction. More specifically, the invention relates to the probabilistic analysis of nucleic acid sequences for the determination of coding features, including determination of state probabilities for each nucleotide in a nucleic acid sequence, determination of coding strand, determination of open read...

Bioinformatics applications are compute and data intensive by nature. As the size of molecular databases is growing from day to day experiments performed in the field of molecular biology, thoughtful steps need to be taken to exploit various methods to accelerate bioinformatics applications. Many efforts have already been put in the field to optimize most of the bioinformatics algorithms. By in...

One of the central problems in bioinformatics is data retrieval and integration. The existing biological databases are geographically distributed across the Internet, complex and heterogeneous in data types and data structures, and constantly changing. With the current rapid growth of biomedical data, the challenge is how large volumes of data retrieved from multiple databases can be transforme...

Complete genomic sequences of several oral pathogens have been deciphered and multiple sources of independently annotated data are available for the same genomes. Different gene identification schemes and functional annotation methods used in these databases present a challenge for cross-referencing and the efficient use of the data. The Bioinformatics Resource for Oral Pathogens (BROP) aims to...