EasyDAS: Automatic creation of DAS servers

Bernat Gel Moreno,Andrew M Jenkinson,Henning Hermjakob,Xavier Messeguer Peypoch,Rafael C Jimenez

doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-23

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BackgroundThe Distributed Annotation System (DAS) has proven to be a successful way to publish and share biological data. Although there are more than 750 active registered servers from around 50 organizations, setting up a DAS server comprises a fair amount of work, making it difficult for many research groups to share their biological annotations. Given the clear advantage that the generalized sharing of relevant biological data is for the research community it would be desirable to facilitate the sharing process.ResultsHere we present easyDAS, a web-based system enabling anyone to publish biological annotations with just some clicks. The system, available at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda-srv/easydas is capable of reading different standard data file formats, process the data and create a new publicly available DAS source in a completely automated way. The created sources are hosted on the EBI systems and can take advantage of its high storage capacity and network connection, freeing the data provider from any network management work. easyDAS is an open source project under the GNU LGPL license.ConclusionseasyDAS is an automated DAS source creation system which can help many researchers in sharing their biological data, potentially increasing the amount of relevant biological data available to the scientific community.

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The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) has proven to be a successful way to publish and share biological data
Since there is no limit on the number of sources to be created by a user, personal datasets can be published in easyDAS, creating as many temporary sources as needed
We have developed a system for the automatic creation of DAS sources

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The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) has proven to be a successful way to publish and share biological data. Results and Discussion easyDAS has been developed to help on that conversion offering a web-based and ready-to-use system for biological data sharing using DAS. The user only needs to upload a text file with the data into easyDAS and set a few configuration options, mainly stating what the data represents, and the system will automatically create a new DAS source.

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