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Data Integration in Bioinformatics: Current Efforts and Challenges

2011; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5772/21654

Zhang Zhang, B. Vladimir, Jun Yu, Kei‐Hoi Cheung, P. Jeffrey,

Gene expression and cancer classification

Bioinformatics -Trends and Methodologies42 results; to bring potential answers to the surface, downstream bioinformatics analysis often involves the integration of diverse data from multiple data sources.The objective of data integration in bioinformatics is to establish automated and efficient ways to integrate large, heterogeneous biological datasets from multiple sources.However, this objective is challenged by data sources that are geographically distributed and heterogeneous in terms of their functions, structures, data access methods and dissemination formats.