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There has been an explosion in the volume of biology-related information that is available in online databases. But finding the right information can be challenging. Not only is this information spread over multiple sources, but often, it is hidden behind form interfaces of online databases. There are several ongoing efforts that aim to simplify the process of finding, integrating and exploring these data. However, existing approaches are not scalable, and require substantial manual input. Notable examples include the NCBI databases and the NAR database compilation. As an important step towards a scalable solution to this problem, we describe a new infrastructure that automates, to a large extent, the process of locating and organizing online databases. We show how this infrastructure can be used to automate the construction and maintenance of a Molecular Biology database collection. We also provide an evaluation which shows that the infrastructure is scalable and effective—it is able to efficiently locate and accurately identify the relevant online databases.
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Barbosa, L., Tandon, S., Freire, J. (2007). Automatically Constructing a Directory of Molecular Biology Databases. In: Cohen-Boulakia, S., Tannen, V. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4544. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73255-6_3
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