Bernauer Sabine, Croft David, Gardina Paul, Minch Eric, de Rinaldis Manuel, Vatcheva Ivayla
LION bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany.
Appl Bioinformatics. 2004;3(1):63-75. doi: 10.2165/00822942-200403010-00008.
This paper describes the development strategies for an integrated tool to support scientists in the creative exploration of data relating to biochemical pathways. The multiple user groups, diverse functionalities, and many types and sources of data demanded a flexible yet coherent approach. This paper summarises the software requirements and the implied modules and functions, and focuses on the design decisions relevant to the representation, management and flow of data. Finally, several case studies in the use of the software are described and evaluated, and recommendations are made for future work.
本文描述了一种集成工具的开发策略,该工具旨在支持科学家对与生化途径相关的数据进行创造性探索。多个用户群体、多样的功能以及多种类型和来源的数据,都需要一种灵活而连贯的方法。本文总结了软件需求以及隐含的模块和功能,并重点关注与数据表示、管理和流动相关的设计决策。最后,描述并评估了该软件使用中的几个案例研究,并对未来工作提出了建议。