Datapan for bioinformatics

Askfor Business Solutions has released Datapan for Bioinformatics, which runs on top of Askfor’s Datapan platform. The new product parses and automates the collection of information from various bioinformatic databanks, including Blast and GenBank.

Datapan is a data management toolset available for Linux and Microsoft 2000 environments that allows the automated collection and distribution of specific information from various sources, including: public Internet resources, existing or legacy databases, intranets, PDF files, XML and ASCII files. Datapan reports its apples-to-apples data normalization uses an XML feed as the lowest common denominator. This feed can then be transformed into customized ASCII, XML, HTML, PDA-HTML, WML, PDF or Excel formats.