BIKMAS: A knowledge engineering system for bioinformatics

Abstract

We present the functional and architectural specification of BIKMAS, a Bioinformatics Knowledge Management System. BIKMAS contains an interactive user interface, a database in which several sources of knowledge are registered and a nucleus of knowledge management implemented with an algorithm that filters scientific information and assists the user in the task of using knowledge. BIKMAS is an active information system capable of retrieving, processing and filtering scientific information, checking for consistency and structuring the relevant information for its efficient distribution and convenient use. Two of the most important aspects of BIKMAS are that the system is based on an object-oriented database and it has been developed in JAVA tightly integrated in Internet.