CHAPTER 11

DiscoveryLink

Laura M. Haas, Barbara A. Eckman, Prasad Kodali, Eileen T. Lin, Julia E. Rice and Peter M. Schwarz

DiscoveryLink enables the integration of diverse data from diverse sources into a single, virtual database, with the goal of making it easier for scientists to find the information they need to prevent and cure diseases. To progress in this quest, scientists need to answer questions that relate data about genomics, proteomics, chemical compounds, and assay results, which are found in relational databases, flat files, extensible markup language (XML), Web sites, document management systems, applications, and special-purpose systems. They need to search through large volumes of data and correlate information in complex ...

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