Support for Accessibility, Reproducibility and Transparency in a Service-Oriented Gene Expression Analysis Platform

Abstract

An integrated platform can be used to support the analysis of gene expression data. In principle, this platform should provide support for accessibility, reproducibility and transparency in order to facilitate its use. However, this support varies among different platforms. SemanticSCo consists of an integrated platform that allows the development of a gene expression analysis workflow based on the semiautomatic composition of semantic web services. SemanticSCo provides limited support for accessibility. Further, the platform lacks support for reproducibility and transparency. This paper describes how accessibility was improved and how reproducibility and transparency were introduced into a new version of the platform, called SemanticSCo Web. These improvements facilitate the development, execution and sharing of gene expression analysis workflows.