Szugat Martin, Güttler Daniel, Fundel Katrin, Sohler Florian, Zimmer Ralf
Department of Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.
Bioinformatics. 2005 Sep 1;21 Suppl 2:ii268-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1144.
Biologists routinely use Microsoft Office applications for standard analysis tasks. Despite ubiquitous internet resources, information needed for everyday work is often not directly and seamlessly available. Here we describe a very simple and easily extendable mechanism using Web Services to enrich standard MS Office applications with internet resources. We demonstrate its capabilities by providing a Web-based thesaurus for biological objects, which maps names to database identifiers and vice versa via an appropriate synonym list. The client application ProTag makes these features available in MS Office applications using Smart Tags and Add-Ins.
生物学家经常使用微软办公软件来执行标准分析任务。尽管互联网资源无处不在,但日常工作所需的信息往往无法直接无缝获取。在此,我们描述了一种非常简单且易于扩展的机制,利用网络服务通过互联网资源丰富标准的微软办公软件。我们通过提供一个基于网络的生物对象同义词库来展示其功能,该同义词库通过适当的同义词列表将名称映射到数据库标识符,反之亦然。客户端应用程序ProTag通过智能标签和插件在微软办公软件中实现这些功能。