Architecture of a mediator for a bioinformatics database federation.

Developments in our ability to integrate and analyze data held in existing heterogeneous data resources can lead to an increase in our understanding of biological function at all levels. However, supporting ad hoc queries across multiple data resources and correlating data retrieved from these is st...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 6, 2 (2002).
Main Author:	Kemp, G.J.L
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	ANSI-SPARC three-level schema. P/FDM functional data model database. Ad hoc queries. Autonomous data resources. Bioinformatics database federation. Biological function. Code generation. Cross-database querying. Data analysis. Data correlation. Data integration. Execution plans. Five-level schema. Heterogeneous data resources. Heterogeneous distributed biological databases. Indexes. List comprehensions. Mapping functions. Mediator architecture. Multiple data resources. Query splitting. Result fusion. Search.