Matthiessen M W
Department of Medical Gastroenterology (54O3), Herlev University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, 2730 Herlev, Denmark.
Bioinformatics. 2003 Nov 22;19(17):2319-20. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg306.
A wealth of bioinformatics tools and databases has been created over the last decade and most are freely available to the general public. However, these valuable resources live a shadow existence compared to experimental results and methods that are widely published in journals and relatively easily found through publication databases such as PubMed. For the general scientist as well as bioinformaticists, these tools can deliver great value to the design and analysis of biological and medical experiments, but there is no inventory presenting an up-to-date and easily searchable index of all these resources. To remedy this, the BioWareDB search engine has been created. BioWareDB is an extensive and current catalog of software and databases of relevance to researchers in the fields of biology and medicine, and presently consists of 2800 validated entries.
BioWareDB is freely available over the Internet at http://www.biowaredb.org/
在过去十年中创建了大量生物信息学工具和数据库，其中大多数可供公众免费使用。然而，与在期刊上广泛发表且通过诸如PubMed等出版物数据库相对容易找到的实验结果和方法相比，这些宝贵资源的存在较为隐蔽。对于普通科学家以及生物信息学家而言，这些工具可为生物学和医学实验的设计与分析带来巨大价值，但目前尚无一个清单能提供所有这些资源的最新且易于搜索的索引。为弥补这一不足，创建了BioWareDB搜索引擎。BioWareDB是一个广泛且最新的与生物学和医学领域研究人员相关的软件和数据库目录，目前包含2800条经过验证的条目。
BioWareDB可通过互联网在http://www.biowaredb.org/免费获取。
