Biofilms Experiment Workbench (BEW) is a novel software workbench for the operation and analysis of Biofilms experimental data. BEW enables full management and analysis of Experiments and Inter-Lab Experiments.

Users can perfom routine data management as well as data analysis namely:

• Experiment and analytical methods management. These contain the information data.
• Open and save Experiments in xml and import and export them in xls.
• Run statistical tests using R engine on these Experiments.
• Plot generation about the methods data.
• Comparing two or more Intra Experiments in order to create an Inter laboratory Experiment.
• Generating HTML reports of the information and data of the Experiments.

The application was developed with AIBench, an open-source Java desktop application framework for scientific software development in the domain of translational biomedicine.

As illustrated in the image below, BEW also incorporates external libraries and plugins:

• A plug-in for the R statistical computing tool (R webpage).
• JFreeChart library for data plotting (JFreeChart webpage).
• JXL library to read and write Excel sheets (JXL webpage).
• JSoup library for working with HTML documents (JSoup webpage).

These third-parties support main data processing and data analysis operations whilst enable future adaptation or extension.

BEW can also communicate BiofOmics through webservices to perform some operations like: data submission, download public Experiments, update metadata, etc.

Please, refer to the official tutorial in the following webpage: BEW installation, if you want to run the software in Windows, Linux or Mac.