The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
The development of high-throughput genome sequencing and protein structure determination techniques have provided researchers with a wealth of biological data. Integrated analysis...
William M. Shui, Raymond K. Wong, Stephen C. Graha...
Background: The analysis of biological data is greatly enhanced by existing or emerging databases. Most existing databases, with few exceptions are not designed to easily support ...
S. A. Kirov, X. Peng, E. Baker, D. Schmoyer, B. Zh...
Asthma is a leading chronic disease of children and currently affects about 6.2 million (8.5%) children in the United States. National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAE...
Abstract. The conventional use of databases is commonly restricted to the retrieval of factual data in the form of tuples or records. However most databases also contain metadata i...