What is BioSide ?

The BioSide environment consists in tools dedicated to the design, execution, management and sharing
of workflows using already existing bioinformatics programs.

- As a design tool, BioSide provides a drag-and-drop interface to select and connect programs,
with parameterising facilities to access to the numerous parameters those programs generally
offer.
- As an execution tool, BioSide provides some optimisation facilities to execute workflows,
depending on the location of programs, but it also grants you to access to all (intermediate or
final) results and to visualize them thanks to existing tools (for example Njplot or treeview for
phylogenetic trees).
- As a search and management tool, BioSide provides the ability to store workflows, but also to
exchange them with other users of BioSide. These exchanges can be made in two modes:
o In a confidential mode, workflows, once exported, may be exchanged through simple
mailing.
o For broader diffusion of a workflow, it is recommended to use our publication site
available at http://www.bioside.org

Depending on your preferences, BioSide provides access both to a set of local installed programs
(muscle, clustalw, and the phylip set of programs) and a set of remote web services. You can also use a
set of external viewers to examine the results within BioSide (these viewers are currently restricted to
tree viewers).

Some extra documentation (flash animations) is available on the BioSide web site in the
documentation section: http://www.bioside.org/documentation.

BioSide is the main tool of a suite developed by TELECOM Bretagne (http://www.telecombretagne.
eu) and Station Biologique de Roscoff (http://www.sb-roscoff.fr) thanks to financial support
of OUEST-genopole® and Brittany Regional organism.