ABSTRACT

With the continued development of molecular techniques, the amount and variety of data obtained by researchers is ever-increasing. This rapid growth in data production makes data analysis and integration a major challenge. Increasingly complex methods are required to draw meaningful conclusions from the analysis. It is becoming extremely difficult for

1Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. ae-mail: Dave.Edwards@uq.edu.au *Corresponding author

humans to interpret the experimental results without the use of dedicated computational tools, which enable the management and analysis of large quantities of information.