CGI-Programming

Introduction

CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is the mechanism that connects between computer programs and the Web server.

It allows you to provide a Web-interface to your program, or, in other words, to run your program from a Web browser and get the output as a Web page.

Read more on CGI, Forms and CGI.

Examples for uses in Bioinformatics

• Analyze a given sequence for:
  • Open reading frames (the ORF Finder program).
    

• Perform a database search, e.g. in:
  • The Genome Database. (e.g. gene name / symbol contains "muscarin").
  • GeneCards. (e.g. search for "muscarin*").
  • The Unified Database. (e.g. search band 13.1 for genes and polymorphic markers).