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Bioinformatics ExperT SYstem (BETSY) automates the creation of complex data analysis workflows. This expert system facilitates exploratory bioinformatics by generating reproducible and novel results, reducing the burden of data pre-processing.

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  • Computational Biology
  • Systems Biology

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  • Bioinformatic analyses are increasingly complex due to numerous steps and methods.
  • Existing analysis pipelines are often rigid, hindering exploratory research.
  • Automating workflow development is crucial for efficient bioinformatic analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an automated system for creating bioinformatics analysis pipelines.
  • To facilitate exploratory analyses in bioinformatics through automated workflow generation.
  • To provide a quantitative measure of the technical burden in bioinformatics analyses.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the Bioinformatics ExperT SYstem (BETSY), a rule-based expert system.
  • Encoded bioinformatics software capabilities into a knowledge base.
  • Utilized a data model for biological data and an inference engine for workflow generation.
  • Populated the knowledge base with rules for microarray and next-generation sequencing data analysis.

Main Results:

  • BETSY successfully generated workflows that reproduce and extend existing bioinformatics results.
  • The system automates the development of complex bioinformatics workflows.
  • A meta-analysis of generated workflows quantified the technical burden of analysis steps, highlighting pre-processing challenges.

Conclusions:

  • Expert systems, like BETSY, can significantly facilitate exploratory bioinformatic analysis.
  • Automating workflow development reduces the need for extensive domain expertise for each analysis.
  • BETSY offers a flexible approach to generating and evaluating bioinformatics workflows.