Groups: knowledge spreadsheets for symbolic biocomputing

Groups: knowledge spreadsheets for symbolic biocomputing

Knowledge spreadsheets (KSs) are a visual tool for interactive data analysis and exploration. They differ from traditional spreadsheets in that rather than being oriented toward numeric data, they work with symbolic knowledge representation structures and provide operations that take into account the semantics of the application domain. 'Groups' is an implementation of KSs within the Pathway To...

Knowledge-Based Spreadsheets

Spreadsheet systems have changed the way the world perceives and deals with computers. In an attempt at maintaining the positive elements of spreadsheets while overcoming some of their limitations, we have developed FINANZ, a computational environment to develop financial planning systems. FINANZ contains a form-based user interface construction system, which allows the creation of advanced use...

Spreadsheets: from data interfaces to knowledge interfaces

Documents of type “spreadsheet” are considered user interfaces to numeric data as they allow authors to create, modify and display these data in distinct layouts like tables or diagrams and readers to interpret them. We tend to believe that enhancing software semantically means that we are lifting its value. In particular, if we enhance spreadsheets semantically can we lift their data interface...

Geneways for Biocomputing

Deductive Biocomputing

BACKGROUND As biologists increasingly rely upon computational tools, it is imperative that they be able to appropriately apply these tools and clearly understand the methods the tools employ. Such tools must have access to all the relevant data and knowledge and, in some sense, "understand" biology so that they can serve biologists' goals appropriately and "explain" in biological terms how resu...