Highlights of Bluejay
Bluejay is a web browser tailored to the display of biological data
in a graphical format. The data must be formatted in a web standard
called XML. The XML structure
allows the user to easily see the hierarchy of the data, and if the data
is not already XML, Bluejay will attempt to create that format for the
user. The user can customize the view of the data (e.g. one or more
genomes) easily, chaning orientations, angles, zoom, and types of features
shown. Bluejay will provide a graphical means of exploring biological
data and formulating queries such as "find me this kind or structure in
other organisms". The user can also export the graphics in SVG, a web standard for press-quality
images, suitable for printing or manipulation in CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator.
(Bio)Moby Services Feature
Bluejay can augment data records, because it acts as a client for the BioMOBY protocol. BioMOBY allows end
users to discover analysis services available on the Web for a given piece
of data. Bluejay provides default mappings from various XML data to
MOBY service input objects, and can handle MOBY Objects themselves, allowing
the user to dig deeper into their data by automatically hyperlinking (at
runtime) viewed XML data to further analysis on remote servers.
For more information on how to use the BioMoby Services features of Bluejay,
see the Navigation Help Page.