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Userscripts for the life sciences.

Egon L Willighagen¹, Noel M O'Boyle, Harini Gopalakrishnan

¹Cologne University Bioinformatics Center, Cologne University, Cologne, Germany. egonw@users.sf.net

BMC Bioinformatics

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Scientists can use userscripts to aggregate and organize vast amounts of online chemistry and biology information. These browser-based tools enhance web resources by linking data and computational results, boosting productivity.

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Area of Science:

Bioinformatics
Cheminformatics
Web Science

Background:

The web hosts a massive and growing volume of chemistry and biology resources.
Organizing and linking these diverse resources is a significant challenge.
Traditional methods struggle with the scale, leading to reliance on search engines and formal languages like Resource Description Framework and Web Ontology Language.

Purpose of the Study:

To present userscripts that aggregate and organize web-based scientific information.
To demonstrate how userscripts can enhance existing web resources by integrating external data and computational results.
To showcase the potential of client-side scripting for scientific information management.

Main Methods:

Development and application of JavaScript-based userscripts.
Utilizing Greasemonkey-like browser plugins for on-the-fly web content modification.
Extraction of information from third-party resources via open Application Programming Interfaces.
Implementation of deep linking using common Universal Resource Locator schemes.

Main Results:

Several userscripts are presented that enrich biology and chemistry web resources.
These scripts successfully incorporate or link to external computational and data sources.
The techniques demonstrate effective aggregation and presentation of distributed scientific information.

Conclusions:

Userscripts offer a flexible solution for aggregating information from multiple web resources.
They enable enrichment of web pages with data from diverse sources.
Scientists can customize their web experience for increased productivity by selecting and running scripts in their own browsers.