BiODS - a customized version of ODS tool

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BiODS is a biology-centered interactive system driven by ontologies.

Biologists need global systems that offer transparent access to a variety of public resources (databases and/or analysis tools). BiODS takes advantage of some basic tenets (simplicity, ease-of-use, user-centered, transparency, knowledge model driven) to provide a simple, straightforward view and allow use of a number of biological resources.

BiODS can therefore be described as a semantic adaptive system. The BiODS central paradigm is that systems have to operate at a knowledge level in order to maximize their interconnectivity. BiODS offers a description logic-based interpreter (advanced shell) and a semantic file system. To facilitate the correct communication acts between users and systems as well as between different resources, BiODS is written entirely in the Java programming language and can be downloaded as a Java JAR archive.

Developed by partners LIRMM and CINES.