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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/

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Motivation <ul><li>Task switching: Office  Browser </li></ul><ul><li>Copy & Paste: Name  Identifier </li></ul>Protein name Information Database identifier

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

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Concept Markup Database identifier Free text

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

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Application: Smart Tags

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

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Application: Office-Add-In

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Application: Standalone Application

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Application: Excel formulas and VBA Macros

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

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Extension: Write your own Actions or Services Integrate additional databases

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

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