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The web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group: 2004 update
Tien Huynh1, Isidore Rigoutsos
1Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA.
Nucleic Acids Research
|June 25, 2004
Summary
IBM
Area of Science:
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
Background:
- IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group offers a continuously available web server.
- This server provides access to numerous computational methods developed by the group.
Purpose of the Study:
- To update users on the latest services and content available on the IBM Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery web server.
- To highlight the expanding range of problems addressable by the group's computational tools.
Main Methods:
- Access to a suite of bioinformatics tools for pattern discovery, sequence alignment, gene finding, and structural analysis.
- Interactive online access to annotations for over 130 archaeal, bacterial, eukaryotic, and viral genomes.
Main Results:
- The web server offers tools for diverse bioinformatics tasks, including event stream pattern discovery and multiple sequence alignment.
- Expanded capabilities include gene discovery in nucleic acid sequences and identification of alpha-helicity deviations.
- Interactive genome annotation search is now available for a wide range of organisms.
Conclusions:
- The IBM Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery server provides a valuable, continuously updated resource for computational biology research.
- The expanded tools and genomic annotations facilitate advanced analysis in bioinformatics and genomics.