State of the nation in data integration for bioinformatics

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 687-693

  Goble, Carole ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data integration; Data warehouse; Databases; Life sciences; Link; Mashup; RDF; Semantics; View integration; Workflow

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; BIOINFORMATICS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; TECHNOLOGY;

BIOINFORMATICS DATA; DATA INTEGRATION; DATA INTEGRATIONS; DATA WAREHOUSE; DATABASES; LIFE SCIENCES; LINK; MASHUP; RDF; VIEW INTEGRATION; WEB 2.0; WORKFLOW;

INTEGRATION;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; INTEGRATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENCE IN GENERAL; SEMANTICS;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 52949085815     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.01.008     Document Type: Review

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