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The BioExtract Server is a web-based system for querying biomolecular sequence data, executing analytic tools on the resulting extracts, and constructing workflows composed of such queries and tools.
It offers a central distribution point for uniformly formatted data from a variety of resources including EMBL, SwissProt, and PlantGDB.
It also gives researchers access to a variety of analytic tools, including BLAST, Clustal, and T-Coffee, and the BioMOBY and EBI Soaplab Web services.
Researchers create workflows implicitly by working with the system. Tasks such as saving a data extract, executing an analytic tool, and querying a data source are automatically saved each time they are performed during a session. At any time, a workflow can be created by saving these recorded tasks, and once saved, the workflow can be edited.
The BioExtract Server was created in The Brendel Group at Iowa State University in collaboration with Visual Metrics Corporation funded by NSF grant 0090732. Continuing development by the Lushbough Bioinformatics Group at The University of South Dakota is supported by NSF grant 0321600.