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4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics: 22. CIC-Workshop

Creating chemo- and bioinformatics workflows, further developments within the CDK-Taverna Project

Chemistry Central Journalvolume 3, Article number: P42 (2009) | Download Citation

The CDK-Taverna project aims at building an open-source pipelining solution through combination of different open-source projects such as Taverna [1] the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) [2] and Bioclipse [3].

Pipelining or workflow tools allow for the Lego™-like, graphical assembly of I/O modules and algorithms into a complex workflow which can be easily deployed, modified and tested without the hassle of implementing it into a monolithic application. Current developments in CDK-Taverna focus on a soft computing framework which allows a flexible use of different methods from, for example, the WEKA [4] library. Additionally an implementation of the ART2a [5] algorithm is added as worker and could be used for cluster purposes. Worker which analyse and compare the cluster results are also implemented. Pgchem::Tigress [6] a chemoinformatic cartridge for a PostgresSQL database is used to allow the handling of large datasets. Therefore a number of worker for adding, selection and searching molecules from and on the database are added.

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  1. Cologne University Bioinformatics Center (CUBIC), Cologne, Germany

    • T Kuhn

  2. University of Applied Sciences of Gelsenkirchen, Institute for Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics, Recklinghausen, Germany

    • T Kuhn
    •  & A Zielesny

  3. European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Cambridge, UK

    • C Steinbeck

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Keywords

  • Large Dataset
  • Cluster Result
  • Soft Computing
  • Chemistry Development
  • Current Development

BMC Chemistry

ISSN: 2661-801X

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