SRS: An Integration Platform for Databanks and Analysis Tools in Bioinformatics
Thure Etzold, Howard Harris and Simon Beaulah
The Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) approach to data integration has evolved over many years to address the needs of researchers in the life sciences to query, retrieve, and analyze complex, ever increasing, and changing biological data. SRS follows a federation approach to data integration, leaving the underlying data sources in their original formats. For example, Genbank [1] is used in flat file format; the Genome Ontology (GO) [2] is used in either XML format or as relational tables stored in MySQL [3]. Databanks generated and provided by the major technologies available are integrated through meta-data, ...
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