Whats the point of BioBike?
BioBike is an approach to reducing the distance between biologists and biocomputation by providing an integrated, on-line, programmable biological knowledge base. In many other scientific areas students use programmable tools to address complex questions. For example, most undergraduate engineers are trained to use matlab, a matrix-based programming language. But biologists don’t have a tool of that sort, and certainly nothing like that is integrated into their training. BioBike is a sort of matlab for biological knowledge, where instead of matrices you have a knowledge base which integrates biological knowledge about particular organisms, their genomes and proteomes, and which provides tools to conveniently operate on that knowledge.
