Web Servicing the Biological Office ProTag, ProThesaurus and LiMB Martin Szugat ( [email_address] ) Bioinformatics group of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LFE Practical Computer Science and Bioinformatics With contributions from Daniel Güttler, Florian Sohler, Katrin Fundel, Ralf Zimmer Part of the HOBIT project Funded by Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft http://hobit.sourceforge.net/

Motivation Task switching: Office  Browser Copy & Paste: Name  Identifier Protein name Information Database identifier

Task switching: Office  Browser

Copy & Paste: Name  Identifier

Motivation Task switching: Office  Browser Copy & Paste: Name  Identifier Seamless Integration of the Web Context information at one click Protein name Information Database identifier

Task switching: Office  Browser

Copy & Paste: Name  Identifier

Seamless Integration of the Web

Context information at one click

Concept Markup Database identifier Free text

Concept Database identifier Annotation Other identifiers Synonyms Web pages Web Services …

Application: Smart Tags

Implementation Download: http://services.bio.ifi.lmu.de/prothesaurus/

Application: Office-Add-In

Application: Standalone Application

Application: Excel formulas and VBA Macros

Extension: Write your own Actions or Services Add Web Service methods as custom Actions

Extension: Write your own Actions or Services Integrate additional databases

Extension: Write your own Actions or Services User commited protein names and identifiers

Thanks for your attention! Open Questions? Coming soon: ProTag becomes open source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/protag