CHAPTER 9

P/FDM Mediator for a Bioinformatics Database Federation

Graham J.L. Kemp and Peter M.D. Gray

The Internet is an increasingly important research tool for scientists working in biotechnology and the biological sciences. Many collections of biological data can be accessed via the World Wide Web, including data on protein and genome sequences and structure, expression data, biological pathways, and molecular interactions. Scientists’ ability to use these data resources effectively to explore hypotheses in silico is enhanced if it is easy to ask precise and complex questions that span across several different kinds of data resources to find the answer.

Some online data resources provide search facilities to enable scientists to find items ...

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