The System Architecture of the BioPath System

Issue title: This is the special Issue The German Conference on Bioinformatics 2001, 7-10 October, Braunschweig, Germany

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Forster, Michael | Pick, Andreas | Raitner, Marcus | Schreiber, Falk | Brandenburg, Franz J.

Affiliations: Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany E-mail: [email protected] | School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Madsen Building (F09), Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract: BioPath is a prototype system for the interactive exploration of biochemical pathways. It has been developed as an electronic version of the famous Boehringer Biochemical Pathways map and offers various ways to access information on substances and pathways and to navigate through pathways. This paper describes the main features and the software architecture of BioPath. The companion paper [11] focuses on the advanced visualization incorporated into BioPath.

Keywords: biochemical pathways, metabolic pathways, visualization, exploration

Journal: In Silico Biology, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 415-426, 2002