Section: Software

Keywords : bioinformatics environment.

GenoStar

Participants : Anne Morgat, François Rechenmann [ Correspondent ] , Alain Viari [ Correspondent ] , Danielle Ziébelin.

GenoStar is an integrated bioinformatics environment, which was developed by a consortium of four members: INRIA, Institut Pasteur, Hybrigenics and GENOME express. GenoStar is made up of several application modules which share data and knowledge management facilities. All data manipulated by the application modules, and all results thus produced, are explicitely represented in an entity-relationship model: AROM . Within a module, the methods are organised into strategies, the execution of which requires complex analysis tasks. The GenoStar platform has now been transferred to the Genostar company. Its three modules (GenoAnnot, GenoLink and GenoBool) have been integrated in the Iogma bioinformatics environment (see 7.1 ), which is based on the same framework. For more information, see (http://www-helix.inrialpes.fr/article121.html )