Oinn Thomas M
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Essex, CB10 1SD, UK.
Bioinformatics. 2003;19 Suppl 1:i212-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg1028.
In order to make use of the emerging grid and network services offered by various institutes and mandated by many current research projects, some kind of user accessible client is required. In contrast with attempts to build generic workbenches, Talisman is designed to allow a bioinformatics expert to rapidly build custom applications, immediately visible using standard web technology, for users who wish to concentrate on the biology of their problem rather than the informatics aspects. As a component of the MyGrid project, it is intended to allow access to arbitrary resources, including but not limited to relational, object and flat file data sources, analysis programs and grid based storage, tracking and distributed annotation systems.
为了利用各机构提供的、且受当前许多研究项目委托的新兴网格和网络服务，需要某种用户可访问的客户端。与构建通用工作台的尝试不同，Talisman旨在让生物信息学专家能够快速构建定制应用程序，这些应用程序使用标准网络技术即可立即呈现给那些希望专注于问题的生物学方面而非信息学方面的用户。作为MyGrid项目的一个组件，它旨在允许访问任意资源，包括但不限于关系型、对象型和平铺文件数据源、分析程序以及基于网格的存储、跟踪和分布式注释系统。
