BioCarian: search engine for exploratory searches in heterogeneous biological databases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are a large number of biological databases publicly available for scientists in the web. Also, there are many private databases generated in the course of research projects. These databases are in a wide variety of formats. Web standards have evolved in the recent times and semantic web technologies are now available to interconnect diverse and heterogeneous sources of data. Therefore, integration and querying of biological databases can be facilitated by techniques used in semantic web. Heterogeneous databases can be converted into Resource Description Format (RDF) and queried using SPARQL language. Searching for exact queries in these databases is trivial. However, exploratory searches need customized solutions, especially when multiple databases are involved. Th

SUBMITTER: Zaki N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5625622 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature