Architecture of a mediator for a bioinformatics database federation

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 116-122

  Kemp, Graham J L ^a   Angelopoulos, Nicos ^a   Gray, Peter M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Functional data model; Mediator; Multidatabase; Prolog; Query optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER NETWORK; DATA BASE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CORRELATION THEORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS;

BIOINFORMATICS; FUNCTIONAL DATA MODELS (FDM);

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036591370     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2002.1006298     Document Type: Article

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