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BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS format converters, relieving scientists of the burden of identi- Integrative genomic fying and scripting the conversions. The GenomeSpace Recipe Resource is a growing set of high-utility use cases that demon- analysis by interoperation strate how to leverage multiple tools and serve as quick guides to analysis tasks. The website serves as a knowledge base, newsstand of bioinformatics tools and point of contact and help for the community of users and tool developers. in GenomeSpace Initially seeded by a consortium of biology research labs and development teams of six popular bioinformatics tools Kun Qu1,12, Sara Garamszegi2,12, Felix Wu2,12, (Cytoscape1,2, Galaxy3, GenePattern4, Genomica5, the Integrative Helga Thorvaldsdottir2, Ted Liefeld2,3, Marco Ocana2,3, Genomics Viewer (IGV)6 and the UCSC Table Browser7), Diego Borges-Rivera4, Nathalie Pochet2,5, GenomeSpace now connects 20 tools and data resources. Our James T Robinson2,3, Barry Demchak3, Tim Hull3, consortium labs provided biological projects and analytical needs 6,7 8 9 to drive GenomeSpace design and development. For example, we Gil Ben-Artzi , Daniel Blankenberg , Galt P Barber , 8,9 9 9 8 recapitulated the steps and results of published analyses within Brian T Lee , Robert M Kuhn , Anton Nekrutenko , GenomeSpace (Supplementary Figs. 1 and 2), dissecting and 6 3 2,3 2,4,10 Eran Segal , Trey Ideker , Michael Reich , Aviv Regev , visualizing the gene regulatory networks in human cancer stem Howard Y Chang1,11 & Jill P Mesirov2,3 cells (Supplementary Note 1, Supplementary Figs. 2–5). The study required diverse data types, analytical steps and methods Complex biomedical analyses require the use of multiple and multiple data transfers between tools.
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