Will Widgets and Semantic Tagging Change Computational Biology?

Philip E. Bourne; Bojan Beran; Chunxiao Bi; Wolfgang Bluhm; Roland Dunbrack; Andreas Prlić; Greg Quinn; Peter Rose; Raship Shah; Wendy Tao; Brian Weitzner; Ben Yukich

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000673

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Will Widgets and Semantic Tagging Change Computational Biology?

Philip E. Bourne ,

* E-mail: pbourne@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Bojan Beran,

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Chunxiao Bi,

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Wolfgang Bluhm,

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Roland Dunbrack,

Affiliation Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Andreas Prlić,

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Greg Quinn,

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Peter Rose,

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Raship Shah,

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
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Wendy Tao,

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
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Brian Weitzner,

Current address: Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Institute for Cancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Ben Yukich

Affiliation San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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Will Widgets and Semantic Tagging Change Computational Biology?

Philip E. Bourne,
Bojan Beran,
Chunxiao Bi,
Wolfgang Bluhm,
Roland Dunbrack,
Andreas Prlić,
Greg Quinn,
Peter Rose,
Raship Shah,
Wendy Tao

Published: February 26, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000673

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Good idea in moderation.

Posted by mlangill on 26 Feb 2010 at 19:16 GMT

What do you think?
http://ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000673#article1.body1.sec1.p7

I think some things will make great widgets that will be very popular. However, I have nightmares of web pages filled with multiple widgets looking like a My Space page. The major limitation of widgets is that they can't talk to each other thus limiting the ability to join them together into a pipeline. However, I still think they are useful in many situations as you have explained clearly in your article.

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