Open Source Groovy Bio-Informatics Software for Linux

BOWS is a generic system based on Web Services which allows programmatic access to applications running on HPC clusters. BOWS allows incorporation of several independent applications since programmers can install them in HPC clusters in any programming language. The lonely requirement is to write a script named “arrow” which calls BOWS back-end services periodically in order to check for new processes and their required parameters. If a new process is found, the “arrow” script should change the requisition status from waiting to running, run the process in the HPC cluster and, when the job is complete, call a BOWS back-end service to send the results. The results will then be available to the requestor. BOWS is called from the front-end by Web Services, therefore a program running in a simple computer can benefit of high performance computation executed elsewhere. doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1190-0

Contextor is a light-weight simple-to-use Java based library to help developers and researchers working with the general concept of a resource; as examples, resources can be text resources, web resources, images and videos.

Identifiers.org is a system providing resolvable and persistent identifiers, in the form of URIs, used to identify data for the scientific community, with a current focus on the Life Sciences domain. The provision of resolvable identifiers (URLs) fits well with the Semantic Web vision, and the Linked Data initiative. The resolving services of Identifiers.org rely on the information stored in the MIRIAM Registry.

The Maltcms - Modular Application Toolkit for Chromatography Mass-Spectrometry is a JAVA API for preprocessing, alignment, analysis and visualization of data stored in open file formats used in Proteomics and Metabolomics research.

Maui is the Maltcms User Interface, a rich client application for Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and related research areas.

Onco-STS is a web-based Laboratory Information Management System for sample and analysis tracking in oncogenomic experiments. The systematic sequencing and analysis of tumour samples, as well other oncogenomic experiments, necessitates the tracking of relevant sample information throughout the investigative process. These meta-data of the sequencing and analysis procedures include information about the samples and projects as well as the sequencing centers, platforms, data locations, results locations, alignments, analysis specifications and further information relevant to the experiments. The sample tracking system for oncogenomic studies (Onco-STS) is designed to store these data and make them easily accessible to the researchers who work with the samples. The system is a web application, which includes a database and a front-end web page that allows the remote access, submission and updating of the sample data in the database.

The Swiss Protein Identification Toolbox (swissPIT) is a project at the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB) in Geneva which aims at the development of an automated analysis system to identify proteins using MS and MS/MS based data.