CHAPTER 6

The Kleisli Query System as a Backbone for Bioinformatics Data Integration and Analysis

Jing Chen, Su Yun Chung and Limsoon Wong

Biological data is characterized by a wide range of data types from the plain text of laboratory records and literature, to nucleic acid and amino acid sequences, 3D structures of molecules, high-resolution images of cells and tissues, diagrams of biochemical pathways and regulatory networks, to various experimental outputs from technologies as diverse as microarrays, gels, and mass spectrometry. These data are stored in a large number of databases across the Internet. In addition to online interfaces for querying and searching the underlying repository data, many Web sites also provide specific computational ...

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