The Helmholtz Network for Bioinformatics: an integrative web portal for bioinformatics resources

SUMMARY The Helmholtz Network for Bioinformatics (HNB) is a joint venture of eleven German bioinformatics research groups that offers convenient access to numerous bioinformatics resources through a single web portal. The 'Guided Solution Finder' which is available through the HNB portal helps users to locate the appropriate resources to answer their queries by employing a detailed, tree-like questionnaire. Furthermore, automated complex tool cascades ('tasks'), involving resources located on different servers, have been implemented, allowing users to perform comprehensive data analyses without the requirement of further manual intervention for data transfer and re-formatting. Currently, automated cascades for the analysis of regulatory DNA segments as well as for the prediction of protein functional properties are provided. AVAILABILITY The HNB portal is available at http://www.hnbioinfo.de

Martin Vingron | Christian von Mering | Ines Liebich | Edgar Wingender | Heinz-Theodor Mevissen | Holger Claussen | Thomas Lengauer | Jan O. Korbel | Matthias Rarey | Peer Bork | Steffen Schulze-Kremer | Thomas Werner | Iris Antes | Tobias Müller | Ralf Zimmer | Dietmar Schomburg | Torsten Crass | Rico Basekow | Christian Buning | Maik Christensen | Christian Ebeling | Peter Ernst | Valérie Gailus-Durner | Karl-Heinz Glatting | Rolf Gohla | Frank Gößling | Korbinian Grote | Karsten R. Heidtke | Alexander Herrmann | Sean O'Keeffe | O. Kießlich | Sven Kolibal | Mark van der Linden | Hannes Luz | Kathrin Meissner | Hans-Werner Mewes | Holger Michael | Martin Mokrejs | Heike Pospisil | Jens G. Reich | Ralf Schneider | Knut Schwarzer | Ingolf Sommer | Stephan Springstubbe | Sándor Suhai | Gnanasekaran Thoppae | Jens Warfsmann | Daniel Wetzler | H. Mewes | Thomas Lengauer | P. Bork | C. V. Mering | J. Reich | J. Korbel | Ingolf Sommer | T. Werner | S. Schulze-Kremer | E. Wingender | M. Vingron | R. Zimmer | D. Schomburg | M. Rarey | H. Claussen | C. Buning | H. Mevissen | H. Pospisil | C. Ebeling | S. Suhai | M. Mokrejs | Tobias Müller | H. Michael | V. Gailus-Durner | S. O’Keeffe | J. Warfsmann | Rico Basekow | K. Grote | A. Herrmann | I. Antes | T. Crass | R. Schneider | I. Liebich | O. Kießlich | H. Luz | K. Glatting | Maik Christensen | M. V. D. Linden | F. Gößling | Stephan Springstubbe | Peter Ernst | K. Schwarzer | Gnanasekaran Thoppae | Rolf Gohla | S. Kolibal | K. Meissner | D. Wetzler

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