The BioAssay Research Database(BARD) was conceived to enable scientists to effectively use the National Institutes of Health(NIH) Molecular Libraries Program(MLP) data. The project is a collaboration between several institutions across the US, and has recently released an infrastructure that supports collection and annotation of bioassay screening data using a well-defined vocabulary, dissemination of data via web and desktop clients, and a mechanism to help develop novel views and analyses of data in the associated databases. In this presentation, we describe the design and implementation of the technical infrastructure that underlies BARD. We will highlight contextualization of assay results (via links to external resources coupled with full-text indexing) and describe how BARD functionality can be extended by the community using plug-ins. As an exemplar of such community-driven extensions, we will describe how the BadApple promiscuity method was integrated into BARD via a plugin developed at the University of New Mexico.

BioAssay Research Database: A platform to support the collection, management, and analysis of chemical biology data

245th National Meeting (2013)

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