The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) System: A Case Study in Biological Data Management

Biological data management includes the traditional areas of data generation, acquisition, modelling, integration, and analysis. Although numerous academic biological data management systems are currently available, employing them effectively remains a significant challenge. We discuss how this challenge was addressed in the course of developing the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system for comparative analysis of microbial genome data.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Victor M. Markowitz, Frank Korzeniewski, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos Kyrpides
• Keywords: Academic Biological Data, Biological Data Management, Database, Microbial Genome, VLDB 2005