Hitachi Software Engineering Company, Ltd.

Tateo Nagai

Keisuke Yamamoto

Yasuyuki Nozaki

Junji Yoshii

Tsunehiko Watanabe

Tadashi Mizunuma

Takahiko Kasuga

Yuichi Minesaki

Daniel Reda

Fumitoshi Ogura

A system in which researchers can freely and effectively use worldwide bioinformatics analysis programs available on the Internet is provided. When a bioinformatics analysis program available on the Internet is used by a user computer, a broker program is used. The broker program has a function of absorbing differences in input/output format between analysis programs, and each analysis program is provided with the broker program. A broker program-providing server stores various broker programs provided by users and makes them available to the public. When the user uses bioinformatics analysis programs available on the Internet, the user can use broker programs that are made available by the broker program-providing server and that are created by other users.

Method for performing bioinformatics analysis program and bioinformatics analysis platform

Necessary information can be easily extracted from a plurality of databasesin which biological substance information is stored. Data is downloaded from the plurality of databases. From the downloaded data is extracted information indicating links between two databases, a detailed description of each data, and sequence data for homology search, which together constitute an index. The thus extracted indexis distributed to a user facility, where a userconducts a search using the distributed index.

Data distribution method, data search method, and data search system

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Tokyo, Japan

Tateo Nagai