An Extensible Light-Weight XML-Based Monitoring System for Sequence Databases

Life science researchers want biological information in their interest to become available to them as soon as possible. A monitoring system is a solution that relieves biologists from periodic exploration of databases. In particular, it allows them to express their interest in certain data by means of queries/constraints; they are then notified when new data arrives satisfying these queries/constraints. We describe a sequence monitoring system XSeqM where users can combine meta data queries on sequence records with constraints on an alignment against a given source sequence. The system is an XML-based solution where constraints are specified through search fields in a user-friendly web interface and which are then translated to corresponding XPath-expressions. The system is easily extensible as addition of new databases to the system then only amounts to the specification of new mappings from search fields to XPath-expressions. To protect private source sequences obtained in labs, it i...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: DILS
• Authors: Dieter Van de Craen, Frank Neven, Kerstin Koch
• Keywords: Life Sciences, DILS 2006, Life Science Researchers, Search Fields, Source Sequences