Section: Software and Platforms

BioGuide

Participants : Sarah Cohen-Boulakia [correspondant] , Christine Froidevaux.

BioGuide/BioGuideSRS : this software helps the scientists choose suitable sources and tools, find complementary information in sources, and deal with divergent data.

Reference : Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Olivier Biton, Susan Davidson, Christine Froidevaux, BioGuideSRS: Querying Multiple Sources with a user-centric perspective, Bioinformatics, March, 23(10), 1301-1303, 2007.

Impact: The paper related to the tool has been cited by $\sim$26 research manuscripts (source: Google Scholar) so far. Since 2007 and up to now, BioGuide has 8,030 distinct users including regular users from the EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute), the Institut Curie and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Availability: Distributed under the terms of the licence since 01/09/2006 on simple demand to the author(s) at http://bioguide-project.net/ .