The Bioinformatics Links Directory continues its collaboration with Nucleic Acids Research to collaboratively publish and compile a freely accessible, online collection of tools, databases and resource materials for bioinformatics and molecular biology research. The July 2011 Web Server issue of Nucleic Acids Research adds an additional 78 web server tools and 14 updates to the directory at htt...

Proteins are sources of many peptides with diverse biological activity. Some of them are considered as valuable components of foods and drug targets with desired and designed biological activity. We are now entering an era rich in biological data in which the field of bioinformatics is poised to exploit this information in increasingly powerful ways. There are currently many databases all over ...

The aim of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics (JIB) is to provide a free-of-charge open access and peer-reviewed platform for original research articles in all aspects of integrative bioinformatics. Over the last ten years, the editorial board accompanied the process and trends in integrative bioinformatics and perceives a strong tendency towards a glut of tools and databases. As a conse...

Bioinformatics can be considered as a bridge between life science and computer science. Biology requires high and large computing power to performance biological applications and to access huge number of distributed and (often) heterogeneous databases. Computer scientists and database communities have expertises in high performance algorithms computation and in data management. Considering bioi...

Bioinformatics activities present new challenges, such as how to exchange and reuse successful experimental procedures, tools and data, and how to understand and provide interoperability among data and tools across different sites, for distinct user profiles. This thesis is an effort towards these directions. It is based on combining research on databases, AI and scientific workflows, on the Se...

With the increasing popularity of the semantic web technology and the ever-growing number of databases in bioinformatics, there is a pressing need to develop mashup systems to integrate bioinformatics knowledge. Bio2RDF is such a system, built from an rdfizer written in JSP, the Sesame open source triplestore technology and an OWL ontology. With Bio2RDF, all documents from public bioinformatics...

The Links Directory at Bioinformatics.ca continues its collaboration with Nucleic Acids Research to jointly publish and compile a freely accessible, online collection of tools, databases and resource materials for bioinformatics and molecular biology research. The July 2010 Web Server issue of Nucleic Acids Research adds an additional 115 web server tools and 7 updates to the directory at http:...

Designing a new drug is not a trivial project and very often it demands large amounts of money and time. The proteins and their interactions play important role in this scientific sector. The main approach of drug designing is to create new molecules which could affect a biological mechanism with the minimum side effects possible. In this review, we present the different kinds of protein intera...

MOTIVATION Over the last decades several glycomics-based bioinformatics resources and databases have been created and released to the public. Unfortunately, there is no common standard in the representation of the stored information or a common machine-readable interface allowing bioinformatics groups to easily extract and cross-reference the stored information. RESULTS An international group...

UNLABELLED As biomedical data accumulates, the need to store, share and organize it grows. Consequently, the number of Internet-accessible databases has been rapidly growing on an annual basis. Bioinformatics regularly publishes descriptions of biomedically relevant databases, Nucleic Acids Research has published an annual database issue since 1996 and now a new open-access journal, DATABASE ...