That connectivity is really the key here. GMOD is a collection of interconnected applications and databases that biologists use as repositories and as tools. The Help Desk is a good resource for biologists who want to learn more about GMOD. We will attempt to address these sorts of questions.īy the way, the word we used here refers to the GMOD Help Desk. These biologists want to know how to efficiently create a useful set of tools for their data, and to be assured that their platform and tools can be easily maintained in an environment where resources may be limited.
They have deep knowledge of their own data and know how such data can be viewed and analyzed.
They may have little knowledge of programming languages or databases, and only passing interest in the IT minutiae. In our experience we find that most biologists want to focus on the science. This introduction is more concerned with answering practical questions, such as given the data I have, what database should I use?", "do I even need a database?, or how hard is this going to be?. A modern biologist knows a great deal about bioinformatics functionality already. GBrowse view of human chromosome 7), you'll understand immediately what GBrowse is built to do, and a few more minutes of clicking and scrolling will reveal all sorts of useful ways to display and query the data. If you look, for example, at a typical GBrowse page (e.g. This does not simply mean describe what the software does. What we will attempt to do is discuss GMOD from the researchers' perspective. However, the creators of GMOD are mostly not practicing biologists and the look and the feel of most GMOD documentation reflects this. But it's not: GMOD has been created for biologists and in the real world, it is used by biologists. With the amount of technical documentation available for GMOD, the casual observer would be forgiven if they concluded that GMOD was a project about software.
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