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InterMine 0.98 release

InterMine 0.98 is now available. New features include:

Human readable labels
Automatic userprofile porting
Expanded region search

Please see the ReleaseNotes for the complete list of new features.

Posted: 2011-10-04 15:48 (Updated: 2011-10-04 15:48)
Author: julie
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Renewed InterMine & MOD funding

An NHGRI grant that funded a collaboration between InterMine and three of the major Model Organism Databases (MODs) has been renewed and expanded.

The new InterMOD funding is for three years and now includes MGI (mouse) and WormBase (worm) who will each set up and host an InterMine instance. These will work alongsi ...

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Posted: 2011-09-21 11:48
Author: rns
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InterMine

InterMine is a powerful open source data warehouse system. Using InterMine, you can create databases of biological data accessed by sophisticated web query tools. Parsers are provided for integrating data from many common biological data sources and formats, and there is a framework for adding your own data. InterMine includes an attractive, user-friendly web interface that works 'out of the box' and can be easily customised for your specific needs, as well as a powerful, scriptable web-service API to allow programmatic access to your data.

The InterMine data warehouse system has a number of attractive features including supporting:

efficient construction and querying of large databases (largest production database currently >0.5TB)
export of data in a variety of configurable/common formats
generating, uploading and working with lists of genes and providing embedded tools with which to characterise them. e.g. finding publications that mention an unexpectedly large number of genes in a list, or finding enriched Gene Ontology terms.
private workspaces for users to save their own custom search queries and lists.
RESTful API and client libraries for programmatic access to data - connect your website to an InterMine, or automate complex data-based workflows.
configuration of much of the user interface by biologist super-users rather than developers
a core data model that can easily be extended as new data types are added
transparent use of pre-computed tables, allowing performance tuning of an otherwise normal schema
automatic derivation of entire system including database, Java classes and web application from the data model, allowing simple and error-free upgrading of user interface and API as the data model is adjusted and new types of data are added.

All InterMine code is freely available under the LGPL license. See checkout information.

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