Figure 1.

Schematic drawing of the GOTax platform. The schema shows the different components of the GOTax platform. GOTaxDB serves as central data storage that is queried by GOTaxExplorer. The stand-alone version of GOTaxExplorer comprises a GUI and a CLI. Additionally, GOTaxExplorer is available as a Java Web Start version. FSST is a module for calculating functional similarities between user-defined sets of proteins or protein families. It contains an embedded database making it independent from GOTaxDB.