This document summarizes information from a presentation on bioinformatics and systems biology. It discusses the history of bioinformatics from early sequence analysis tools to modern databases and pathways resources. It also describes Cytoscape as a tool for network analysis and visualization and mentions its ability to import networks from databases and perform analyses. Finally, it briefly discusses biohackathons as events for developers and users to collaborate on bioinformatics software.
41. • DBCLS EBI
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• BioHackathon
• Web Service API
42. BioHackathon
2009 in Japan
✤ End of March, 2009 in
DBCLS(Tokyo)/
OIST(Okinawa)
✤ Roughly 70% of the attendees
were developers, 30% were
users (biologists)
✤ Discuss and hack hot topics in
bioinformatics software/
system