VIBE
The INCOGEN Visual Integrated Bioinformatics Environment (VIBE) is a state-of-the-art, drag-and-drop analysis workflow management environment. INCOGEN has been recognized as a global leader in the field of workflow management for several years and VIBE represents the premier software application in this area.

The VIBE system can interface with a variety of environments, including high throughput platforms such as Sun Microsystem's Grid Engine. The rich visualization and data mining environments in combination with the sophisticated server architecture offer the life science researcher a powerful system for data analysis, mining and knowledge discovery. The new VIBE Software Development Kit (SDK) combines the rich and powerful VIBE environment with user-level extensibility.

Features

• Visual workflow creation, customization, and management
• Robust toolkits
• Efficient drag-and-drop analysis pipeline construction
• Visual implementation of algorithms
• Data filtering on simple or complex criteria
• Distributed, multi-user support
• Interactive or batch mode module execution
• User editable representation of pipelines in XML
• State-of-the-art, interactive visualization tools
• Intuitive, user-friendly data representation
• Archive workflows and results for future use

VIBE SDK
The VIBE Software Development Kit (SDK) extends the existing powerful and user-friendly bioinformatics visual programming environment of the INCOGEN VIBE software by providing an integration Application Programming Interface (iAPI) that allows users to integrate in-house, third-party analysis tools and new data types. VIBE SDK is a flexible environment that builds on the functionality and features of VIBE. In addition to the suite of analysis utilities available through various VIBE toolkits and the capabilities of the VIBE framework, bioinformaticists gain the ability to integrate their own algorithms or third-party tools, whether installed locally or remotely. Once a new tool has been integrated, users can share the integration elements with other users of the same tool, following a write once, integrate everywhere philosophy of pluggable software components. VIBE SDK unifies your tools and process into one easy-to-use environment.

Features

• Integration Application Programming Interface (iAPI)
• Extensive guides and documentation
• Write once, integrate everywhere philosophy of "pluggable" components
• Module configurations via external XML files - often that is all that is required to integrate a new tool
• Scaleable, flexible, and distributable configurations