NAR
2011
13 years 1 months ago
2011
Genome-wide association studies often incorporate information from public biological databases in order to provide a biological reference for interpreting the results. The dbSNP d...
BMCBI
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Background: Complex biological database systems have become key computational tools used daily by scientists and researchers. Many of these systems must be capable of executing on...
BMCBI
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Background: Manual curation of biological databases, an expensive and labor-intensive process, is essential for high quality integrated data. In this paper we report the implement...
BIOCOMP
2006
14 years 7 days ago
2006
Several biological databases exist which use different formats for storing data. Further, each database has its own schema and a query interface. There exist no standard conversio...
APBC
2006
14 years 7 days ago
2006
: The rapid growth of biological databases not only provides biologists with abundant data but also presents a big challenge in relation to the analysis of data. Many data analysis...
CIDR
2007
14 years 9 days ago
2007
Biologists are increasingly using databases for storing and managing their data. Biological databases typically consist of a mixture of raw data, metadata, sequences, annotations,...
DILS
2006
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Springer
Public biological databases contain vast amounts of rich data that can also be used to create and evaluate new biological hypothesis. We propose a method for link discovery in biol...
CSWWS
2006
14 years 2 months ago
2006
Bioinformaticians are accustomed to going through analysis steps, in which they employ several data sources, like protein sequence and protein interaction databases, to carry out t...
SSDBM
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
In this paper, we present a query system that has been implemented in a practical biological database - GPCRDB. Distinguishing features of this system include: smart query relaxat...
CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
SRS is a widely used system for integrating biological databases. Currently, SRS relies only on locally provided copies of these databases. In this paper we propose a mechanism th...