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Chipster’s ability to provide a biologist-friendly access to a powerful analysis platform is technically based on a desktop application user interface, a flexible distributed architecture, and the ability to integrate many types of analysis tools (command line, R/Bioconductor, Java, Web Services etc). The platform is generic and easily extendable to other areas, even beyond bioinformatics.
For more information, please see http://chipster.csc.fi and http://genomebiology.com/1471-2164/12/