BED: a Biological Entity Dictionary based on a graph data model.

ABSTRACT: The understanding of molecular processes involved in a specific biological system can be significantly improved by combining and comparing different data sets and knowledge resources. However, these information sources often use different identification systems and an identifier conversion step is required before any integration effort. Mapping between identifiers is often provided by the reference information resources and several tools have been implemented to simplify their use. However, most of these tools do not combine the information provided by individual resources to increase the completeness of the mapping process. Also, deprecated identifiers from former versions of databases are not taken into account. Finally, finding automatically the most relevant path to map identifiers fro

SUBMITTER: Godard P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6039941 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature