PathPort, short for pathogen portal, combines information about pathogens (and their near relatives) from around the world with powerful analysis and visualization tools to aid in the rapid detection, identification, and forensic attribution of high-priority pathogens, whether causing infectious diseases or potentially used as a biological weapons. To provide this platform, VBI will perform genome data acquisition, vetting, consolidation, and annotation; create the data model, graphical user interface, bioinformatics tools for analysis, and the portal; develop methods to validate candidate target sequences; and research host response to pathogen models. The software infrastructure supporting the PathPort project is built around ToolBus, a client-side interconnect. ToolBus allows researchers to easily access web-services from all over the world (as well as programs and files on their desktop computer), which provide both data and analysis services, and to examine the results using a wide variety of visualization tools. In addition, ToolBus enables users to form groupings of related information and to perform comparative analysis using these data groups in order to support the discovery of interesting inter-data relationships. ToolBus is a general purpose client-side interconnect and is not in any way tied to a particular domain. Rather, it is the collection of web-services, such as those for gene prediction and multiple sequence alignment, along with visualization tools for viewing this kind of information that turns the collection of components into PathPort.

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