JADE - AN APPROACH FOR INTERCONNECTING BIOINFORMATICS DATABASES (REPRINTED FROM GENE COMBIS, VOL 209, PG GC39-GC43, 1998)

To achieve the integration of biological data available on the World W ide Web and maintained in diverse sources such as GDB, Genbank or Aced b, we have developed a software called Jade. Jade allows programmers t o create analytic tools and graphical user interfaces for one or more existing bioinformatics data sources. These tools can then be intercha nged, compared and reused without making modifications in the data sou rces themselves. The system is implemented in the Java programming lan guage and will run equally well on Macintosh, Windows or Unix workstat ions. Jade is free and can be used immediately by all interested parti es. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.