BioBIKE provides primitive structures built upon the foundation, concepts such as gene, upstream sequence, and metabolic pathway.
From these, derived structures are provided by BioBIKE or invented
by users. Some built-in derived structures are Blast scores of every protein
against every organism and sets of orthologs for each pair of organisms.
BioLisp is a dialect of Lisp that incorporates functions useful to the manipulation and analysis of bioinformatic data.
BioBIKE language is derived from BioLisp, offering a simplified syntax and reduction of Lisp's and BioLisp's functions into a few powerful commands. It is designed to appeal to biologists with little if any programming experience, at the cost of some of Lisp's functionality.