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NAR
2000
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The EcoCyc and MetaCyc databases
EcoCyc is an organism-specific Pathway/Genome Database that describes the metabolic and signaltransduction pathways of Escherichia coli, its enzymes, and--a new addition--its tran...
Peter D. Karp, Monica Riley, Milton H. Saier Jr., ...
NAR
2000
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ALFRED: an allele frequency database for diverse populations and DNA polymorphisms
We have developed a publicly accessible database (ALFRED, the ALlele FREquency Database) that catalogues allele frequency data for a wide range of population samples and DNA polym...
Kei-Hoi Cheung, Michael V. Osier, Judith R. Kidd, ...
FUIN
2000
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14 years 7 days ago
Building Knowledge Scouts Using KGL Metalanguage
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously search for and synthesize user-oriented knowledge (target knowledge) in large local or distributed databases. A knowledge ge...
Ryszard S. Michalski, Kenneth A. Kaufman
BMCBI
2002
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Identification and characterization of subfamily-specific signatures in a large protein superfamily by a hidden Markov model app
Background: Most profile and motif databases strive to classify protein sequences into a broad spectrum of protein families. The next step of such database studies should include ...
Kevin Truong, Mitsuhiko Ikura
BIB
2002
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Technologies for Integrating Biological Data
The process of building a new database relevant to some field of study in biomedicine involves transforming, integrating, and cleansing multiple data sources, as well as adding ne...
L. Wong
BMCBI
2004
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14 years 9 days ago
mlstdbNet - distributed multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) databases
Background: Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) is a method of typing that facilitates the discrimination of microbial isolates by comparing the sequences of housekeeping gene frag...
Keith A. Jolley, Man-Suen Chan, Martin C. J. Maide...
TOIS
2008
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Classification-aware hidden-web text database selection
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
BMCBI
2005
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Storing, linking, and mining microarray databases using SRS
Background: SRS (Sequence Retrieval System) has proven to be a valuable platform for storing, linking, and querying biological databases. Due to the availability of a broad range ...
Antoine Veldhoven, Don de Lange, Marcel Smid, Vict...
BMCBI
2005
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Columba: an integrated database of proteins, structures, and annotations
Background: Structural and functional research often requires the computation of sets of protein structures based on certain properties of the proteins, such as sequence features,...
Silke Trißl, Kristian Rother, Heiko Mül...
BMCBI
2005
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MiMiR: a comprehensive solution for storage, annotation and exchange of microarray data
Background: The generation of large amounts of microarray data presents challenges for data collection, annotation, exchange and analysis. Although there are now widely accepted f...
Mahendra Navarange, Laurence Game, Derek Fowler, V...