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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
BioLingua: a programmable knowledge environment for biologists
J P Massar1, Michael Travers, Jeff Elhai
1Institute for Study of Learning and Expertise Palo Alto, CA, USA.
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BioLingua is an interactive, web-based programming environment that enables biologists to analyze biological systems by combining knowledge and data through direct end-user programming. BioLingua embeds a mature symbolic programming language in a frame-based knowledge environment, integrating genomic and pathway knowledge about a class of similar organisms. The BioLingua language provides interfaces to numerous state-of-the-art bioinformatic tools, making these available as an integrated package through the novel use of web-based programmability and an integrated Wiki-based community code and data store. The pilot instantiation of BioLingua, which has been developed in collaboration with several cyanobacteriologists, integrates knowledge about a subset of cyanobacteria with the Gene Ontology, KEGG and BioCyc knowledge bases. We introduce the BioLingua concept, architecture and language, and give several examples of its use in complex analyses.
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Extensive documentation is available online at http://nostoc.stanford.edu/Docs/index.html
Contact:
JShrager@Stanford.edu
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