What is it ?

The Bioinformation Management System is a web application where all the data about your bioinformatic research can be stored. This means that biosequences, annotations, protein structural informations, files, documents, and so on will be managed by a single, rational and unifying multipurpose system. Then the users will be able to create new virtual experiments, store results, search the annotations and the biosequences, share their data among different users groups: all through a simple unified interface. The idea behind this system is to provide researchers with a sort of virtual laboratory diary, where all the experiments of in silico bioinformatic research are managed.

The Bioinformation Management System comes in different flavors, depending on which tools do you want to use: the base and the full release share a common interface based on Plone; the Tangram and the ZenDock versions are a standalone web front-end of each tool, and have a different layout.

How do you use it

A simple web browser is enough to access the system and to use it. By selecting biosequences and planning the execution of the different tools and BioDecoders, new predictions are generated; their analysis in turn, can create new annotations and the rationale for other experiments.