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Integrative bioinformatics

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Integrative bioinformatics is a discipline of bioinformatics that focuses on problems of data integration for the life sciences. With the rise of high-throughput (HTP) technologies in the life sciences, particularly in molecular biology, the amount of collected data has come to grow in an exponential fashion. Furthermore, the data is scattered over a plethora of both public and private repositories, and is stored using a great number of different formats. This situation makes the extraction of new knowledge from the complete set of available data very difficult.


Data that can be integrated include genomes, proteins, protein-protein interaction data, annotations, gene expression data, phylogenies, biological articles, and drug interaction data.

Approaches

Semantic web approach

Data warehousing approach

Other approaches

See also

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