Agent-Oriented Data Curation in Bioinformatics
Agent-Oriented Data Curation in Bioinformatics
The practitioners of bioinformatics require increasing sophistication from their software tools to take into account the particular characteristics that make their domain complex. For example, there is a great variation of experience of researchers, from novices who would like guidance from experts in the best resources to use to experts that wish to take greater management control of the tools used in their experiments. Also, the range of available, and conflicting, data formats is growing and there is a desire to automate the many trivial manual stages of in-silico experiments. Agent-oriented software development is one approach to tackling the design of complex applications. In this paper, we argue that, in fact, agent-oriented development is a particularly well-suited approach to developing bioinformatics tools that take into account the wider domain characteristics. To illustrate this, we design a data curation tool, which manages the format of experimental data, extend it to better account for the extra requirements placed by the domain characteristics, and show how the characteristics lead to a system well suited to an agent-oriented view.
provenance agents tools curation bioinformatics grid
Miles, Simon
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2005
Miles, Simon
76c81b8e-1ca1-4d6d-ace3-922f03df97e0
Miles, Simon
(2005)
Agent-Oriented Data Curation in Bioinformatics.
Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Medicine, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics (MAS*BioMed'05), Utrecht, Netherlands.
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The practitioners of bioinformatics require increasing sophistication from their software tools to take into account the particular characteristics that make their domain complex. For example, there is a great variation of experience of researchers, from novices who would like guidance from experts in the best resources to use to experts that wish to take greater management control of the tools used in their experiments. Also, the range of available, and conflicting, data formats is growing and there is a desire to automate the many trivial manual stages of in-silico experiments. Agent-oriented software development is one approach to tackling the design of complex applications. In this paper, we argue that, in fact, agent-oriented development is a particularly well-suited approach to developing bioinformatics tools that take into account the wider domain characteristics. To illustrate this, we design a data curation tool, which manages the format of experimental data, extend it to better account for the extra requirements placed by the domain characteristics, and show how the characteristics lead to a system well suited to an agent-oriented view.
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Published date: 2005
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Event Dates: July 2005
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Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems in Medicine, Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics (MAS*BioMed'05), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005-07-01
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provenance agents tools curation bioinformatics grid
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/260853
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