Hello,
I'd like to drop a note about Bioverse. We've been working on it for
many years and have recently reached "2.0" status.
http://bioverse.compbio.washington.edu/
In brief, the Bioverse provides a framework for exploring the
relationships among the molecular, genomic, proteomic, systems, and
organismal worlds.
Presently we house information about almost 500,000 proteins across 54
organisms. Each protein, or molecule, is described with a sequence,
structure, known and predicted interactions to other molecules, known
and predicted functions, and similarity to other molecules. You can
read more about this on the website.
The data and these relationships are viewable with a web browser or an
RPC interface.
Using the web interface, you can search for molecules by entering text
strings that match names, functional annotations, or sequences.
Clicking on a found molecule will reveal an initial view that can have
various sections expanded to reveal more detailed information.
With the RPC interface you can write an application to display our data
in a way that is convenient for you. The RPC server offers it's data
in XML-RPC form, so you can access it from most programming language
environments:
http://bioverse.compbio.washington.edu/rpc/
In fact, the Bioverse web application (written in Javascript and
utilizing various "AJAX" techniques for content rendering) queries the
XML-RPC server directly for all its data needs. We are working on
finishing an improvement to Integrator, a tool for graphically
exploring protein interaction networks, which also uses the XML-RPC
server.
We encourage you to check it out and give us your feedback. Write us at
bioverse at compbio.washington.edu or start a thread on the Bioverse
Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/bioverse
Thanks, we hope to hear from you!
The Bioverse Team
Michal Guerquin, administrator
