Easier Access to Bioinformatics Resources

BioInformatics Resource Inventory (B.I.R.I.)

The BioInformatics Resource Inventory (B.I.R.I.) is a public online searchable index of bioinformatics resources developed at the Biomedical Informatics Group. Information describing the resources has been automatically extracted from the literature and indexed using Natural Language and Text Mining techniques. The index is automatically updated by analyzing new papers describing existing resources (databases, tools, services…

The best part is that the team has made the new methodology available to everyone via a Web application called BioInformatics Resource Inventory (B.I.R.I.). BIRI allows the whole scientific community to search for bioinformatics resources by name, category, and domain.