Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access published online on June 21, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research, doi:10.1093/nar/gkm344
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BIPASS: BioInformatics Pipeline Alternative Splicing Services
1Scientific Data Management Laboratory, Arizona State University, PO Box 875706, Tempe AZ 85287-5706 and 2Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Received January 31, 2007. Revised April 14, 2007. Accepted April 22, 2007.
BioInformatics Pipeline Alternative Splicing Services (BIPASS) offer support to scientists interested in gathering information related to alternative splicing (AS) events. The service BIPASSpliceDB provides access to AS information that has been extracted a priori from various public databases and stored in a data warehouse. In contrast, the BIPASAlign&Splice service allows scientists to submit their own sequences and genome to compute AS analysis results. BIPAS services offer various user-friendly ways to navigate through the results. AS results are organized at different conceptual levels (clusters and sequences), and are displayed in graphs or summarized in tables that can be downloaded in XML or text format. The two BIPAS services SpliceDB and Align&Splice are available online at http://bip.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/.
The authors wish it to be known that, in their opinion, all authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.