The amount of genomic data available for analysis online is vast and ever growing. Yet, a biologist wishing to gain insight from them is lost in data model, data formats, and interfaces of particular data sources. In this article, we survey the architecture of data integration (also known as information gathering or informatics) applications, which are used to integrate and provide uniform access to heterogeneous data sources in bioinformatics. We use a taxonomy to highlight the capabilities of recent integrated systems for genomic data access and give pointers to their future extensions.
By: Biplav Srivastava
Published in: RI02018 in 2002
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