Gagglebridge: Collaborative Data Analysis

Motivation: Tools aiding in collaborative data analysis are becoming ever more important as researchers work together over long distances. We present an extension to the Gaggle framework, which has been widely adopted as a tool to enable data exchange between different analysis programs on one computer.Results: Our program, GaggleBridge, transparently extends this functionality to allow data exchange between Gaggle users at different geographic locations using network communication. GaggleBridge can automatically set up SSH tunnels to traverse firewalls while adding some security features to the Gaggle communication.Availability: GaggleBridge is available as open-source software implemented in the Java language at http://it.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/gb.Contact: florian.battke@uni-tuebingen.deSupplementary Information: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/btr429/DC1 are available at Bioinformatics online.