Search By Keyword
BIO TDS

1. Enter you search term(s) into the search box. The system will allow you to select from a predefined list of keywords.

BIO TDS

2.Select search term(s) from our predefined list.These terms are our ontology list for our collection.

BIO TDS

3. Click the search button to search for the selected query.The search button will navigate you to our results page.

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4.You will be navigated to our results page where your query results will be displayed.

Search by Free Text.
BIO TDS

1.Enter free text into the search text box. For example: "What aligner should I use for mapping bacterial RNA-Seq data?"

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2. Click on the submit button and you will be navigated to our results page where your query results will be displayed.

BIO TDS

3. Click the search button to search for the selected query.The search button will navigate you to our results page.

BIO TDS

4.You will be navigated to our results page where your query results will be displayed.

Browse Categories
BIO TDS

1.The Browse By Categories Page will list all our resources while categorizing it into our ontologies.

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2.The Grid Version will arrange all our resources on the basis of the ontologies we provide.

Bio-Tds-Overview

The aim of our Bioinformatics Tool Discovery System is to address some of the Bioinformatics educational challenges by creating a comprehensive, annotated Bioinformatics analytic query tool discovery system.

The Bioinformatics Tool Discovery System (Bio-TDS) is comprised of a list of tool descriptions gathered from Galaxy , iPlant Collaborative , Bioinformatics Link Directory which contains the Nucleic Acid Research Tool List, SEQAnswers, and Bio-Soft Net by leveraging their respective API functionality. An ontology annotation system has been added to the BLT to enable robust searching capabilities. The ontologies to be integrated into the annotation system are: EDAM , SWO, and NGSOnto. EDAM is an ontology of concepts that are prevalent within bioinformatics, including types of data, data identifiers, data formats, operations and topics (http://edamontology.org/). The Software Ontology (SWO) is a resource for describing analytic tools, their types, tasks, versions, data requirements and provenance (http://theswo.sourceforge.net/). NGSOnto is an ontology to describe workflows from DNA extraction to contigs in a Whole Genome Sequence experiment (http://darwin.phyloviz.net/~msilva/NGSonto/).