Intelligent Access to Sequence and Structure Databases (IASSD) - an interface for accessing information from major web databases

Sayak Ganguli; Manoj Kumar Gupta; Protip Basu; Rahul Banik; Pankaj Kumar Singh; Vineet Vishal; Abhisek Ranjan Bera; Hirak Jyoti Chakraborty; Sasti Gopal Das

doi:10.6026/97320630010764

Intelligent Access to Sequence and Structure Databases (IASSD) - an interface for accessing information from major web databases

Bioinformation. 2014 Dec 31;10(12):764-6. doi: 10.6026/97320630010764. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Sayak Ganguli¹, Manoj Kumar Gupta¹, Protip Basu¹, Rahul Banik¹, Pankaj Kumar Singh¹, Vineet Vishal¹, Abhisek Ranjan Bera¹, Hirak Jyoti Chakraborty¹, Sasti Gopal Das¹

Affiliation

¹ DBT Centre for Bioinformatics, Presidency University, Kolkata - 73.

Abstract

With the advent of age of big data and advances in high throughput technology accessing data has become one of the most important step in the entire knowledge discovery process. Most users are not able to decipher the query result that is obtained when non specific keywords or a combination of keywords are used. Intelligent access to sequence and structure databases (IASSD) is a desktop application for windows operating system. It is written in Java and utilizes the web service description language (wsdl) files and Jar files of E-utilities of various databases such as National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and Protein Data Bank (PDB). Apart from that IASSD allows the user to view protein structure using a JMOL application which supports conditional editing.

Availability: The Jar file is freely available through e-mail from the corresponding author.

Keywords: IASSD; NCBI; PDB; WSDL; conditional editing.