Bioinformatics Tools @ NBBNet: Online Infrastructure for the Management and Analysis of Biological Data

The use of informatics tools for the management and analysis of sequences for nucleic acids and proteins has result ed better throughout capability of wet lab research work to infer biological data to functional biological information. The field of computational biological information management and analysis is generally known as bioinformatics. We discuss some tools and processes which have been dev eloped or integrated into a data management and information presentation pipeline by the Malaysian National Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Network. Central to this is the Bioinfonnatics Tools @ NBBn et online infrastructure system. This infrastructure system utilizes grid computing technology. III addition, the deployment of niche databases and database shells for research applying specific datasets such as a particular protein function, protein family or genomes have been discussed.