Abstract
The explosive growth in genomic (and soon, expression and proteomic) data, exemplified by the Human Genome Project, is a fertile domain for the application of multi-agent information gathering technologies. Furthermore, hundreds of smaller-profile, yet still economically important organisms are being studied that require the efficient and inexpensive automated analysis tools that multi-agent approaches can provide. In this paper we give a progress report on the use of the DECAF multi-agent toolkit to build reusable information gathering systems for bioinformatics. We will briefly summarize why bioinformatics is a classic application for information gathering, how DECAF supports it, and recent extensions underway to support new analysis paths for genomic information.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grants IIS-9812764, IIS- 9733004 and BDI-0092336.
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Decker, K., Khan, S., Schmidt, C., Michaud, D. (2001). Extending a Multi-agent System for Genomic Annotation. In: Klusch, M., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents V. CIA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44799-7_12
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