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| In Silico Biology 2, 0037 (2002); ©2002, Bioinformation Systems e.V. |
The system architecture of the BioPath system
Michael Forster1, Andreas Pick1, Marcus Raitner1, Falk Schreiber2 and Franz J. Brandenburg1
1Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Passau, 94030 Passau, Germany
E-mail: brandenb@informatik.uni-passau.de
2School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Madsen Building (F09), Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Edited by E. Wingender; received November 30, 2001; revised and accepted January 28, 2002 ; published April 18, 2002
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 [Schreiber, 2002] focuses on the advanced visualization incorporated into BioPath.
Key words: biochemical pathways, metabolic pathways, visualization, exploration