Gathering and managing data from diverse and heterogeneous datasets is central to many systems approaches to biology. Systems biologists need to easily identify and gather the information they require and then integrate and analysis the experimental and reference data sets which can come from myriad databases with a wide variety of formats and access methods.
The Ondex data integration platform enables data from diverse biological data sets to be linked, integrated and visualised through graph analysis techniques. Ondex uses a rich and flexible core data structure, which has the ability to bring together information from structured databases and unstructured sources such as biological sequence data and free text. Ondex also offers a front-end, which allows users to visualise and analyse the integrated data.
Technology
- Java J2SE 6.0
- Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition
- Apache CXF SOAP framework
- Apache Lucene text search engine
Features
- Import databases and experimental datasets
- Merge them
- Export as an Ondex graph
- Export as a tab-delimited file
- Import an Ondex graph or use the front-end to compose a workflow and run your data integration
- Visualise the integrated data
- Use available filters and annotators to analyse the data
- Export annotated graphs as images
OS: Linux, Unix and Windows
Licence: Open Source under GNU GPL
