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| + | 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. But it's not, GMOD has been created ''for biologists'' and in the real world it's used ''by biologists''. However, the creators of GMOD are mostly not practicing biologists and the look and the feel of most GMOD documentation reflects this. What we will attempt to do is discuss GMOD from the researchers' perspective. This does not simply mean describe what the software does. If you look, for example, at a typical GBrowse page like this [http://www.chr7.org/cgi-bin/gbrowse/gbrowse/chr7_v2 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. A modern biologist knows a great deal about bioinformatics functionality already. What we're more concerned with here are the practical details. Like ''given the data I have what database should I use? or do I even need a database?'' Or ''how hard is this going to be?'' | ||
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| + | In our experience we find that most biologists want to focus on the science. They may have little knowledge of programming languages or databases, and only passing interest in the IT minutiae. They have deep knowledge of their own data, needless to say, and are very familiar with how data like their own can be viewed and analyzed. What they want to know is how to create their own useful set of tools for their own data in as efficient a way as possible. And when this tool set is created they want to rest assured that their platform can be easily maintained in an environment where resources may be limited. | ||
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| + | By the way, the word ''we'' used here refers to the [[GMOD_Help_Desk|GMOD Help Desk]]. The Help Desk is a good resource for biologists who want to learn more about GMOD, for whatever reason. Feel free to email us at wg-emod@nescent.org. | ||
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==What is a GMOD?== | ==What is a GMOD?== | ||
| − | + | At first it stood for '''G'''eneric '''M'''odel '''O'''rganism '''D'''atabase, this was back in days when there were a handful of ''model organisms'' and | |
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===Licenses=== | ===Licenses=== | ||
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Revision as of 20:25, 6 March 2007
Contents
Introduction
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. But it's not, GMOD has been created for biologists and in the real world it's used by biologists. However, the creators of GMOD are mostly not practicing biologists and the look and the feel of most GMOD documentation reflects this. What we will attempt to do is discuss GMOD from the researchers' perspective. This does not simply mean describe what the software does. If you look, for example, at a typical GBrowse page like this 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. A modern biologist knows a great deal about bioinformatics functionality already. What we're more concerned with here are the practical details. Like given the data I have what database should I use? or do I even need a database? Or how hard is this going to be?
In our experience we find that most biologists want to focus on the science. They may have little knowledge of programming languages or databases, and only passing interest in the IT minutiae. They have deep knowledge of their own data, needless to say, and are very familiar with how data like their own can be viewed and analyzed. What they want to know is how to create their own useful set of tools for their own data in as efficient a way as possible. And when this tool set is created they want to rest assured that their platform can be easily maintained in an environment where resources may be limited.
By the way, the word we used here refers to the GMOD Help Desk. The Help Desk is a good resource for biologists who want to learn more about GMOD, for whatever reason. Feel free to email us at wg-emod@nescent.org.
What is a GMOD?
At first it stood for Generic Model Organism Database, this was back in days when there were a handful of model organisms and
What is GBrowse?
What is Chado?
What is GMODWeb?
What is Bioperl?
What is Modware?
More Information
Resources
People
Hardware
Operating System
Software
Licenses
==Case Studies [Category:Needs Editing]]
