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The catalogs of molecular biology databases does not provide a full description of databases, so the user should select databases using limited information available. Taking into account this fact, in the context of an initiative called BioDBCore, a group of experts proposes core metadata definitions to describe the molecular biology databases. However, how to use these metadata to infer the quality of a database is a clear open issue. In the present work, we propose an ontology-based approach aiming to guide the database selection process from molecular biology database catalogs using these metadata.
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Lichtnow, D., Alves, R., Pastor, O., Burriel, V., de Oliveira, J.P.M. (2014). BION2SEL: An Ontology-Based Approach for the Selection of Molecular Biology Databases. In: Campos, S. (eds) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8826. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12418-6_11
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