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% Registration SeqHoundRWeb.py: a Python-based interface to a
% comprehensive online bioinformatics resource
% Peter St. Onge (pete@seul.org)
In the post-genomic era, getting useful
answers to challenging biological questions
often demands significant expertise and
resources not only to acquire the requisite
biological data but also to manage it. The
storage required to maintain a workable
genomic or proteomic database is usually out
of reach for most biologists. Some toolsets
already exist to facilitate some aspects of
data analysis, and others for access to
particular data stores (e.g., NCBI Toolkit),
but there is a substantial learning curve to
these tools and installation is often
non-trival. SeqHoundRWeb.py grew out of a
common frustration in bioinformatics---the
initiate bioinformaticist often has
substantial biological knowledge, but little
experience in computing; Python is often held
up as a good first scripting language to
learn, and in our experience new users can be
productive fairly rapidly.
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