Integrative bioinformatics
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
In the data warehousing strategy, the data from diffent sources are extracted and integrated in a single database. Changes in these sources are constantly synhronized to the integrated database. The data is presented to the users in a common format.
Other approaches
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