Genomic medicine aims to revolutionize health care by applying our growing understanding
of the molecular basis of disease. Research in this arena is data intensive, which means …

The increased generation of data in the pharmaceutical R&D process has failed to generate
the expected returns in terms of enhanced productivity and pipelines. The inability of existing …

FlyMine is a data warehouse that addresses one of the important challenges of modern
biology: how to integrate and make use of the diversity and volume of current biological …

Cleansing data from impurities is an integral part of data processing and maintenance. This
has lead to the development of a broad range of methods intending to enhance the accuracy …

In a large modern enterprise, it is almost inevitable that different portions of the organization
will use different systems to produce, store and search their critical data. Yet, it is only by …

Background This article addresses the problem of interoperation of heterogeneous
bioinformatics databases. Results We introduce BioWarehouse, an open source toolkit for …

This paper surveys the area of biological and genomic sources integration, which has
recently become a major focus of the data integration research field. The challenges that an …

ONTOFUSION is an ontology-based system designed for biomedical database integration. It
is based on two processes: mapping and unification. Mapping is a semi-automated process …

The growing quantity and distribution of bioinformatics resources means that finding and
utilizing them requires a great deal of expert knowledge, especially as many resources need …

Motivation: Many molecular biological databases are implemented on relational Database
Management Systems, which provide standard interfaces like JDBC and ODBC for data and …