BioExtract Server: data access, analysis, storage and workflow creation
From “About us:”
BioExtract harnesses the power of online informatics tools for creating and customizing workflows. Users can query online sequence data, analyze it using an array of informatics tools (web service and desktop), create and share custom workflows for repeated analysis, and save the resulting data and workflows in standardized reports. This work was initially supported by NSF grant 0090732. Current work is being supported by NSF DBI-0606909.
A great tool for sequence data researchers and a good example of what is possible with other structured data sets.
Much has been made (and rightly so) of the need for and difficulties of processing unstructured data.
But we should not ignore the structured data dumps being released by governments and other groups around the world.
And we should recognize that hosted workflows and processing can make insights into data a matter of skill, rather than ownership of enough hardware.