A Computational Biology database digest: Data, data analysis, and data management

Distributed and Parallel Databases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-42

  Bry, François ^a   Kröger, Peer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Data analysis; Data integration; Data modelling; Molecular biology databases

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DATA INTEGRATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036462146     PISSN: 09268782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021540705916     Document Type: Article

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