Several biological databases exist which use different formats for storing data. Further, each database has its own schema and a query interface. There exist no standard conversio...
Background: This article addresses the problem of interoperation of heterogeneous bioinformatics databases. Results: We introduce BioWarehouse, an open source toolkit for construc...
Thomas J. Lee, Yannick Pouliot, Valerie Wagner, Pr...
Background: Bacterial typing schemes based on the sequences of genes encoding surface antigens require databases that provide a uniform, curated, and widely accepted nomenclature ...
Background: Molecular biologists work with DNA databases that often include entire genomes. A common requirement is to search a DNA database to find exact matches for a nondegener...
One of the main drawbacks of the Semantic Web is the lack of semantically rich data, since most of the information is still stored in relational databases. In this paper, we presen...