Title |
FCC – An automated rule-based processing tool for life science data
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Published in |
Source Code for Biology and Medicine, January 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1751-0473-8-3 |
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Authors |
Simon Barkow-Oesterreicher, Can Türker, Christian Panse |
Abstract |
Data processing in the bioinformatics field often involves the handling of diverse software programs in one workflow. The field is lacking a set of standards for file formats so that files have to be processed in different ways in order to make them compatible to different analysis programs. The problem is that mass spectrometry vendors at most provide only closed-source Windows libraries to programmatically access their proprietary binary formats. This prohibits the creation of an efficient and unified tool that fits all processing needs of the users. Therefore, researchers are spending a significant amount of time using GUI-based conversion and processing programs. Besides the time needed for manual usage, such programs also can show long running times for processing, because most of them make use of only a single CPU. In particular, algorithms to enhance data quality, e.g. peak picking or deconvolution of spectra, add waiting time for the users. |
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