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iPhone application development – room for bioinformatics?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

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A great core tutorial has been written on writing your first iPhone application in 14 days.

I am certain that there is room for iPhone bioinformatics, and I am confident that an integration with a meta-aggregation warehouse such as the Mnemosyne LabManager could provide a scope for accessing bioinformatics based data on the move?

A good question would be why?

  1. Because I can.
  2. It would be useful in many situations.
  3. Imagine checking the expression profile of a target gene against your “favourite” dataset during a conference.
  4. Having access to experimental workflows on the train would promote innovation

I do not propose that we implement interpro for iPhone, but a sequence analysis method would be useful ;-)

Just a thought and perhaps a plan for the future!