Extending a Multi-agent System for Genomic Annotation

  • Authors:
  • Keith Decker;Salim Khan;Carl Schmidt;Dennis Michaud

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CIA '01 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents V
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The explosive growth in genomic (and soon, expression and proteomic) data, exemplified by the Human Genome Project, is a fertile domain for the application of multi-agent information gathering technologies. Furthermore, hundreds of smaller-profile, yet still economically important organisms are being studied that require the efficient and inexpensive automated analysis tools that multi-agent approaches can provide. In this paper we give a progress report on the use of the DECAF multi-agent toolkit to build reusable information gathering systems for bioinformatics. We will briefly summarize why bioinformatics is a classic application for information gathering, how DECAF supports it, and recent extensions underway to support new analysis paths for genomic information.