A schema-based approach to building a bioinformatics database federation

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, BIBE 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 13-20

  Kemp, G J L ^a   Angelopoulos, N ^a   Gray, P M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Biological information theory; Buildings; Data analysis; Data models; Distributed databases; Fusion power generation; Indexes; Information retrieval; Search engines

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BUILDINGS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY PROCESSING;

BIOINFORMATICS DATABASE; BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION THEORIES; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE; FEDERATED ARCHITECTURE; FUNCTIONAL DATA MODELING; FUSION POWER; INDEXES; SEQUENCE RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84952323269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE.2000.889584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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