Plant, Animal & Microbe Genomes X Conference

January 12-16, 2002
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Workshop: Bioinformatics/Computers
            

ISYS: THE EMPLOYMENT OF LOOSE COUPLING TO ACHIEVE ROBUST INTEGRATION ACROSS BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AREAS

¹ National Center for Genome Resources, 2935 Rodeo Park Drive East, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA

I will present a case study on ISYS, a technology platform for DynamicDiscovery(TM) developed by the National Center for Genome Resources (http://www.ncgr.org/isys). The talk will cover the use of a loose-coupling architecture to address integration in bioinformatics. This approach compartmentalizes bioinformatic tools to within their biological specialty and then addresses interaction and communication among such components; as such, the emphasis is on application integration, rather than data integration per se. The approach allows new and legacy programs, including web pages, to be integrated even if such resources were developed in isolation of each other. ISYS is available for use by both developers and users. I will describe ISYS's architectural approach and then give a demonstration of the software.