BIOZON: A system for unification, management and analysis of heterogeneous biological data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Birkland, Aaron ^a   Yona, Golan ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DATA; BIOLOGICAL DATABASE; BIOLOGICAL DOCUMENTS; CELLULAR PATHWAY; FUNCTIONAL PREDICTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE; MULTIPLE DATA TYPES;

DATA INTEGRATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY INFERENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

DNA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOZON; CELL FUNCTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PREDICTION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETIC DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RESEARCH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33645471934     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-70     Document Type: Article

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