Abstract:
Data integration continues to baffle researchers even though substantial progress has been made. Although the emergence of technologies such as XML, web services, semanti...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Data integration continues to baffle researchers even though substantial progress has been made. Although the emergence of technologies such as XML, web services, semantic web and cloud computing have helped, a system in which biologists are comfortable articulating new applications and developing them without technical assistance from a computing expert is yet to be realized. The distance between a friendly graphical interface that does little, and a “traditional” system though clunky yet powerful, is deemed too great more often than not. The question that remains unanswered is, if a user can state her query involving a set of complex, heterogeneous and distributed life sciences resources in an easy to use language and execute it without further help from a computer savvy programmer. In this paper, we present a declarative meta-language, called VisFlow, for requirement specification, and a translator for mapping requirements into executable queries in a variant of SQL augmented with integration artifacts.
Date of Conference: 15-18 December 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 19 January 2017
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