Some Issues on Biological DBs: Data Integration and Mining

Bilich, Carlos (2005) Some Issues on Biological DBs: Data Integration and Mining. UNSPECIFIED.

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    Abstract

    The usage of database technology has become essential in almost any research task in biology. There are plenty of examples of this usage, among one of the most important is the complete decoding of the human genome achieved in recent years, a task that could not have been completed in such a short time without the help of computers, and in particular, database technology. Its usage is nowadays so diffuse in many areas of biology, that databanks containing biological data are now commonly termed “biological databases”. Among many of the issues that biological databanks face today, this article concentrates particularly on two: the multiplicity of sources and mining useful data from them. A brief description of each of the problems and possible solutions are provided.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA075 Electronic computers. Computer science
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Data mining, bioinformatics, data bases
    Report Number: DIT-06-060
    Repository staff approval on: 26 Sep 2006

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