UTOPIA (bioinformatics tools)

UTOPIA
Developer(s)Steve Pettifer,
Terri Attwood,
David Parry-Smith,
D.N.Perkins,
A.W. Payne,
A.D. Michie,
Phillip W.Lord,
J.N.Selley,
Phil McDermott,
James Marsh,
James Sinnott,
Dave Thorne,
Benjamin Blundell
Written inC++, Python
Operating systemLinux, Mac and Windows
Websiteutopia.cs.manchester.ac.uk

UTOPIA (User-friendly Tools for Operating Informatics Applications) is a suite of free tools for visualising and analysing bioinformatics data. Based on an ontology-driven data model, it contains applications for viewing and aligning protein sequences, rendering complex molecular structures in 3D, and for finding and using resources such as web services and data objects.[1][2][3][4] There are two major components, the protein analysis suite and UTOPIA documents.

  1. ^ Pettifer, S. R.; Sinnott, J. R.; Attwood, T. K. (2004). "UTOPIA—User-Friendly Tools for Operating Informatics Applications". Comparative and Functional Genomics. 5 (1): 56–60. doi:10.1002/cfg.359. PMC 2447318. PMID 18629035.
  2. ^ McDermott, P.; Sinnott, J.; Thorne, D.; Pettifer, S.; Attwood, T. (2006). "An Architecture for Visualisation and Interactive Analysis of Proteins". Fourth International Conference on Coordinated & Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization (CMV'06). p. 55. doi:10.1109/CMV.2006.3. ISBN 978-0-7695-2605-8. S2CID 43554573.
  3. ^ Attwood, T. K.; Kell, D. B.; McDermott, P.; Marsh, J.; Pettifer, S. R.; Thorne, D. (2009). "Calling International Rescue: Knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!". Biochemical Journal. 424 (3): 317–333. doi:10.1042/BJ20091474. PMC 2805925. PMID 19929850.
  4. ^ Pettifer, S.; Thorne, D.; McDermott, P.; Marsh, J.; Villéger, A.; Kell, D. B.; Attwood, T. K. (2009). "Visualising biological data: A semantic approach to tool and database integration". BMC Bioinformatics. 10 (Suppl 6): S19. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S6-S19. PMC 2697642. PMID 19534744.