Bryson, K. , Luck, M., Joy, M. and Jones, D.T. (2000) Applying agents to bioinformatics in geneweaver. In: Klusch, M. and Kerschberg, L. (eds.) Cooperative Information Agents IV - The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace. Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1860. Springer: Boston, MA, pp. 60-71. ISBN 9783540450122 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-45012-2_7)
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Abstract
Recent years have seen dramatic and sustained growth in the amount of genomic data being generated, including in late 1999 the first complete sequence of a human chromosome. The challenge now faced by biological scientists is to make sense of this vast amount of accumulated and accumulating data. Fortunately, numerous databases are provided as resources containing relevant data, and there are similarly many available programs that analyse this data and attempt to understand it. However, the key problem in analyzing this genomic data is how to integrate the software and primary databases in a flexible and robust way. The wide range of available programs conform to very different input, output and processing requirements, typically with little consideration given to issues of integration, and in many cases with only token efforts made in the direction of usability. In this paper, we introduce the problem domain and describe GeneWeaver, a multi-agent system for genome analysis. We explain the suitability of the information agent paradigm to the problem domain, focus on the problem of incorporating different existing analysis tools, and describe progress to date.
| Item Type: | Book Sections |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Bryson, Dr Kevin |
| Authors: | Bryson, K., Luck, M., Joy, M., and Jones, D.T. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science |
| Journal Name: | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| ISBN: | 9783540450122 |
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