Bug#301673: RFP: biofox -- bioinformatics tools as an extension on the Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape browsers
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : biofox
Version : 0.3
Upstream Author : Saleem Mohammed <saleem.m@gmail.com>
* URL : http://schematron.unl.edu/biofox/
* License : MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Description : bioinformatics tools as an extension on the Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape browsers
Code bioFOX aims at implementing various bioinformatics tools as an extension on the Mozilla and Firefox browsers. Analysis of your favorite gene(s) usually require(s) retrieving it from a database like NCBI or Swiss-Prot and then performing one or more tasks including but not limited to:
* Translation of a nucleotide sequence
* Blast search (For eg. blastn, blastp etc.) of the desired nucleotide/protein sequence.
* Calculation of properties (like PI, charge, molecular weight, AT/GC content etc.) of a protein/nucleotide sequence.
* Conversion between formats (Genbank, Fasta, Swiss-Prot etc.)
* Prediction of sequence for sub-cellular localization (PREDOTAR, TargetP, pSORT etc)
Each of these tasks requires at least the following 4 steps:
* Visiting one of the sequence database websites,
* searching for the gene using its name or accession ID (ACC ID),
* copying the gene sequence
* and importing it to other bioinformatics websites for further analysis.
Code bioFOX upon implementation would make analysis of desired sequences easier than it is today. For example, selecting a sequence and submitting it directly to a particular website of interest.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-mm1-biolinux1
Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pt_BR)
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