Developing User-Friendly Bioinformatics Tools for the Visualization and Analysis of the Immune System
Advisor Information
Dario Ghersi
Location
MBSC 201
Presentation Type
Poster
Start Date
6-3-2020 12:30 PM
End Date
6-3-2020 1:45 PM
Abstract
Modern biology is currently undergoing a technological shift which is creating a demand for interdisciplinary professionals that are able to interpret large amounts of biological data. The intersection between biology, computer science, and statistics is most commonly referred to as bioinformatics. Part of the bioinformatics field is dedicated to developing the specialized software tools that allow users to easily analyze large amounts of biological data. Traditionally, many of these software tools have been exclusively accessible through command-line environments, which proves troublesome to users who have little to no experience in computer science. Therefore, due to the rise of computational methods in biological research, it is important to make software tools accessible to the whole of the biological community, which is currently generating data faster than it can be processed. In this paper, I present a software package that allows for command-line bioinformatics tools to be accessed using a graphical user interface (GUI). GUIs allow users to interact with programs through graphical icons and labels instead of text-only commands. The three bioinformatics tools included in this package are MEME, TCRdist, and Circos; these are all software tools used for the visualization and analysis of immunological data.
Developing User-Friendly Bioinformatics Tools for the Visualization and Analysis of the Immune System
MBSC 201
Modern biology is currently undergoing a technological shift which is creating a demand for interdisciplinary professionals that are able to interpret large amounts of biological data. The intersection between biology, computer science, and statistics is most commonly referred to as bioinformatics. Part of the bioinformatics field is dedicated to developing the specialized software tools that allow users to easily analyze large amounts of biological data. Traditionally, many of these software tools have been exclusively accessible through command-line environments, which proves troublesome to users who have little to no experience in computer science. Therefore, due to the rise of computational methods in biological research, it is important to make software tools accessible to the whole of the biological community, which is currently generating data faster than it can be processed. In this paper, I present a software package that allows for command-line bioinformatics tools to be accessed using a graphical user interface (GUI). GUIs allow users to interact with programs through graphical icons and labels instead of text-only commands. The three bioinformatics tools included in this package are MEME, TCRdist, and Circos; these are all software tools used for the visualization and analysis of immunological data.
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