A Platform for Integration ISYS TM is a platform for the integration of heterogeneous bioinformatics software tools and databases. It allows sophisticated interactions among independent software components, by enabling them to exchange services and events. The ISYS Users' Release is now available . Using the maxdView gene expression viewer , the scientist has filtered her data set to a subset of interest. Finally, she has spawned the BDGP GO Browser to view associated ontologies.
Selection is synchronized across all three components.
Browsing of sequence annotation and execution of similarity search. The scientist began in the Sequence Viewer , selecting a sequence by accession number. The sequence and its annotations were retrieved transparently via the Entrez server proxy , then displayed in the viewer. The scientist invoked the Similarity Search Launcher and executed the search. The search results were displayed in the Similarity Search Browser , which broadcasted an event describing the presence of apparent homologs.