BioTracs provides an hierarchical and modular environment where developers and non-expert users can model, implement, use and share their analytic workflows while ensuring traceability and transparency in their computational processes. Initiated at BIOASTER, the BioTracs project is today open to the community in order to bring this architecture to the whole bioinformatics community.
The key idea behind the BioTracs framework is to ultimately provide a community-driven analytics platform where computational processes are traceable, upgradable and easily sharable at the code, application and scientific project levels.
The PRISM architecture was designed on the basis of the well-known MVC (model-view-controller) architecture. BioTracs is therefore MVC-oriented. PRISM ambitions to provide an agnostic framework in which developers and end-users can concurrently contribute to the same applications while guaranteeing that what is implemented by the developers at the code level is what is delivered to the end-users with almost no supplementary effort.