EDIT: Easy-to-use Bio-Data Extraction, Integration and Refreshing Tools

Author

Ni, Tianyun ; Su, Stanley ; Zhou, Lei

Author_Institution

Shands Cancer Center, Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL

Volume

1

fYear

2006

fDate

20-24 June 2006

Firstpage

91

Lastpage

95

Abstract

Systems biology research demands the ability to construct custom-designed bio-entities from heterogeneous data sources. EDIT is an ongoing project aimed at building a system to allow bio-researchers with minimum computer proficiency to define the structure of a desired bio-entity, and identify the data sources for its data fields. Then, the system automatically extracts and output the data in the predefined structure and format. The system consists of a host site, which maintains and updates the configuration files specified for source databases, and user sites, which perform data extraction and integration by using the configuration files. An event-trigger-rule server is used to support data refreshing and to notify biologists about changes made to source databases

Keywords

biology computing; data structures; database management systems; bio-data integration; bio-data refreshing tool; data structure; easy-to-use bio-data extraction; event-trigger-rule server; heterogeneous data source; Cancer; Data engineering; Data mining; Database systems; Distributed computing; Educational institutions; Engineering in medicine and biology; Genetics; Proteins; Research and development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Computational Sciences, 2006. IMSCCS '06. First International Multi-Symposiums on

Conference_Location

Hanzhou, Zhejiang

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2581-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMSCCS.2006.56

Filename

4673530