Open source software in life science research : practical solutions to common challenges in the pharmaceutical industry and beyond / edited by Lee Harland and Mark Forster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harland, Lee.

Forster, Mark.

Series:

Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomedicine

Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine, 2050-0289 ; no. 16

Woodhead publishing series in biomedicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life sciences--Research.

Life sciences.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Woodhead Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The free/open source approach has grown from a minor activity to become a significant producer of robust, task-orientated software for a wide variety of situations and applications. To life science informatics groups, these systems present an appealing proposition - high quality software at a very attractive price. Open source software in life science research considers how industry and applied research groups have embraced these resources, discussing practical implementations that address real-world business problems.The book is divided into four parts. Part one looks at laboratory da

Contents:

Cover; Open source software in life science research: Practical solutions in the pharmaceutical industry and beyond; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; About the editors; About the contributors; Introduction; 1 Building research data handling systems with open source tools; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Legacy; 1.3 Ambition; 1.4 Path chosen; 1.5 The 'ilities; 1.6 Overall vision; 1.7 Lessons learned; 1.8 Implementation; 1.9 Who uses LSP today?; 1.10 Organisation; 1.11 Future aspirations; 1.12 References; 2 Interactive predictive toxicology with Bioclipse and OpenTox

2.1 Introduction2.2 Basic Bioclipse-Open Tox interaction examples; 2.3 Use Case 1: Removing toxicity without interfering with pharmacology; 2.4 Use Case 2: Toxicity prediction on compound collections; 2.5 Discussion; 2.6 Availability; 2.7 References; 3 Utilizing open source software to facilitate communication of chemistry at RSC; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Project Prospect and open ontologies; 3.3 ChemSpider; 3.4 ChemDraw Digester; 3.5 Learn Chemistry Wiki; 3.6 Conclusion; 3.7 Acknowledgments; 3.8 References; 4 Open source software for mass spectrometry and metabolomics; 4.1 Introduction

4.2 A short mass spectrometry primer4.3 Metabolomics and metabonomics; 4.4 Data types; 4.5 Metabolomics data processing; 4.6 Metabolomics data processing using the open source workflow engine, KNIME; 4.7 Open source software for multivariate analysis; 4.8 Performing PCA on metabolomics data in R/KNIME; 4.9 Other open source packages; 4.10 Perspective; 4.11 Acknowledgements; 4.12 References; 5 Open source software for image processing and analysis: picture this with ImageJ; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 ImageJ; 5.3 ImageJ macros: an overview; 5.4 Graphical user interface

5.5 Industrial applications of image analysis5.6 Summary; 5.7 References; 6 Integrated data analysis with KNIME; 6.1 The KNIME platform; 6.2 The KNIME success story; 6.3 Benefits of 'professional open source'; 6.4 Application examples; 6.5 Conclusion and outlook; 6.6 Acknowledgments; 6.7 References; 7 Investigation-Study-Assay, a toolkit for standardizing data capture and sharing; 7.1 The growing need for content curation in industry; 7.2 The BioSharing initiative: cooperating standards needed; 7.3 The ISA framework - principles for progress; 7.4 Lessons learned; 7.5 Acknowledgments

7.6 References8 GenomicTools: an open source platform for developing high-throughput analytics in genomics; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Data types; 8.3 Tools overview; 8.4 C++ API for developers; 8.5 Case study: a simple ChIP-seq pipeline; 8.6 Performance; 8.7 Conclusion; 8.8 Resources; 8.9 References; 9 Creating an in-house 'omics data portal using EBI Atlas software; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Leveraging 'omics data for drug discovery; 9.3 The EBI Atlas software; 9.4 Deploying Atlas in the enterprise; 9.5 Conclusion and learnings; 9.6 Acknowledgments; 9.7 References

10 Setting up an 'omics platform in a small biotech

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781908818249

1908818247

OCLC:

865332941