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.
Integrative bioinformatics attempts to tackle this problem by providing unified access to life science data.
Approaches
Semantic web approaches
Data warehousing approaches
Other approaches
See also
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