References

Open data

This project is possible because data producers and data curators make their work available online through application programming interfaces.

• The FAIR principles describe principles for making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. These principles, which have been influential in the field of open data both to promote good data management, motivate the name ‘FAIR-biomed’.

Browser extensions

The idea of augmenting web pages with additional information has a long history.

• Reflect was an early implementation of a browser extension aimed at biomedical research. This extension sent a whole web-page to a server for annotation.

• Dynamic linking outlined an idea to infer links to specialist sources by scanning the context of web pages.

• GIX described an extension for retrieving information on gene products.

Software

The implementation of FAIR-biomed relies on several third-party software components.

• The extension relies on several development frameworks and libraries.

  • babeljs,
  • browserify
  • fs-extra
  • mocha
  • nyc
  • React
  • sanitize-html
  • uglify-es
  • utf-8

• Icons in the browser extension and on this website are from fontawesome.

• This website is powered by jekyll and github pages.

• This website is implemented using bootstrap.