BioJS is an open-source project for
bioinformatics data on the web.
Its goal is to develop an open-source library of
JavaScript
JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior, of ...
components to visualise biological data.
BioJS develops and maintains small building blocks (components) which can be reused by others. For a discovery of available components, BioJS maintains
registry.
History
The first version of BioJS was released in 2012 by John Gomez. It was developed as a JavaScript library of web components to represent biological data in web applications. Version 2.0 included a complete redesign of the library and was released in 2014 as a Google Summer of Code project led by
Manuel Corpas
Manuel Corpas (born December 3, 1982) is a Panamanian professional baseball pitcher for the Martinez Sturgeon of the Pecos League. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs.
Career
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and developed by David Dao and Sebastian Wilzbach. Since then over 100 people contributed to the project. Currently more than 150 components are available in the BioJS registry.
Selected list of published components
* DAG Viewer
* DNA Content Viewer
* FeatureViewer
* HeatMapViewer
* Intermine analysis
* Intermine endpoints
* KEGGViewer
* PPI-Interactions
* PsicquicGraph
* Sequence
* wigExplorer
* treeWidget
Institutions using BioJS
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EBI
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ELife
''eLife'' is a not-for-profit, peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences. It was established at the end of 2012 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society, and Wellcome Trust, following a w ...
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InterMine
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Berkeley Lab
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...
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OpenPHACTS
Rostlab*
TGAC
See also
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BioJava
BioJava is an open-source software project dedicated to provide Java tools to process biological data.VS Matha and P Kangueane, 2009, ''Bioinformatics: a concept-based introduction'', 2009. p26 BioJava is a set of library functions written in the ...
,
Biopython,
BioRuby,
BioPHP
BioPHP is a collection of open-source PHP code, with classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, alignment, database parsing, and other bioinformatics tools. BioRuby is released under the GNU GPL version 2 licence and is one of a number of Bi ...
,
BioPerl,
Bioconductor
Bioconductor is a free, open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data generated by wet lab experiments in molecular biology.
Bioconductor is based primarily on the statistical R programm ...
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Open Bioinformatics Foundation
The Open Bioinformatics Foundation is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization focused on supporting open source programming in bioinformatics. The mission of the foundation is to support the development of open source toolkits for bioinformatics, ...
References
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Free bioinformatics software