Bioinformatic

For this homework I have to search an article in the web that talk
about Bioinformatic related with Theory Information. The articule that
I found is the next one:
 
  Integrating Biological Research through Web Services
  Hong Tina Gao, Jane Huffman Hayes, et al.

In this topic they talk about a case of study where demostrates that
Web Services could be key to coordinating and standardizing
incompatible applications in bioinformatics, an effort that is
becoming increasingly critical to meaningful biological research.

This starts with the disadvantage with the people that work in biology,
they need to analyze microarray to search certain proteins, look for
some patterns, certain sequence, etc., in a microarray are aproximatetly hundreds of
millons of molecules so it's to hard to make a search manually, for
this they make scripts where they implement algorithms depending in
what they are working for, then when they get a result they have to
make readable that result. As you see it's very difficult to make a
script, implement an algorithm and then make readable the information.
 
This is a microarray, a set of molecules.

That's why in these guys implement Web Services to avoid that the
people that work in Biology need to know about programming, need to
implement algorithms and then making readable, they said that the
biologist just need to know about basic skills about computer like
uploading a file in a web page, use keyboard and mouse, then they can
put some kind of rules to say if they need to look for some sequence,
search and certain of molecules, proteins, etc., after they put the
rules they just wait like a 10 or 15 minutes for a result, here is
important to say that in normal experiments in a normal computers is
about 1 hour or 10 hours to wait for a result, and after wait the time
necessary you just get a file in the result wished and ready to read.

Below we can see an diagram of how the web service that takes as inputs
microarray works.

  

This way any biologist can make experiments in just minutes, avoiding
that the biologist the need of programming skills.

Conclusion

I think this is a great idea because the biologist just need to make
some clicks to get his results and then get some conclusiones in some
minutes. This help to make a good improvement of the biologist and
increase the levels of experiments, invents and progress in biology.
 

Reference

Gao, H. and Huffman Hayes, J. (2005) Integrating Biological Research
through Web Services. Disponible en:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1413114&tag=1
[Accesado: 28 Mayo 2013].