Saint: a lightweight integration environment for model annotation.
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SUBMITTER: Lister AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2773255 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
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Saint: a lightweight integration environment for model annotation.
Lister Allyson L AL Pocock Matthew M Taschuk Morgan M Wipat Anil A
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 20090904 22
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>Saint is a web application which provides a lightweight annotation integration environment for quantitative biological models. The system enables modellers to rapidly mark up models with biological information derived from a range of data sources.<h4>Availability and implementation</h4>Saint is freely available for use on the web at http://www.cisban.ac.uk/saint. The web application is implemented in Google Web Toolkit and Tomcat, with all major browsers supported. The Java so ...[more]
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