Title
MetaRouter: bioinformatics for bioremediation.
Abstract
Bioremediation, the exploitation of biological catalysts (mostly microorganisms) for removing pollutants from the environment, requires the integration of huge amounts of data from different sources. We have developed MetaRouter, a system for maintaining heterogeneous information related to bioremediation in a framework that allows its query, administration and mining (application of methods for extracting new knowledge). MetaRouter is an application intended for laboratories working in biodegradation and bioremediation, which need to maintain and consult public and private data, linked internally and with external databases, and to extract new information from it. Among the data-mining features is a program included for locating biodegradative pathways for chemical compounds according to a given set of constraints and requirements. The integration of biodegradation information with the corresponding protein and genome data provides a suitable framework for studying the global properties of the bioremediation network. The system can be accessed and administrated through a web interface. The full-featured system (except administration facilities) is freely available at http://pdg.cnb.uam.es/MetaRouter. Additional material: http://www.pdg.cnb.uam.es/biodeg_net/Meta Router.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1093/nar/gki068
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
bacteria,data mining,web interface,environmental microbiology,systems integration,genomics,internet,computational biology
Bioremediation,Biology,Bioinformatics,Delegation (computing),User interface,Biopsy core needle,The Internet,System integration
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
Database issue
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.82
4
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Florencio Pazos129130.33
David Guijas271.16
Alfonso Valencia32577322.43
Victor De Lorenzo4324.12