The Information Integration System K2
Val Tannen, Susan B. Davidson and Scott Harker
In 1993, the invitational Department of Energy (DOE) workshop on genome informatics published a report that claimed that until all sequence data is gathered in a standard relational database, none of the queries in the appendix to the report could be answered (see Figure 8.1 for a listing of the queries) [1]. While the motivation for the statement was largely political, the gauntlet had been laid in plain view for database researchers: The data to answer the queries in the appendix were (by and large) available, but they were stored in a number of physically distributed databases. The databases represented their data in a variety of formats using ...
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