Departmental Papers (CIS)
Title
Selecting biomedical data sources according to user preferences
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
July 2005
Abstract
Motivation: Biologists are now faced with the problem of integrating information from multiple heterogeneous public sources with their own experimental data contained in individual sources. The selection of the sources to be considered is thus critically important.
Results: Our aim is to support biologists by developing a module based on an algorithm that presents a selection of sources relevant to their query and matched to their own preferences. We approached this task by investigating the characteristics of biomedical data and introducing several preference criteria useful for bioinformaticians. This work was carried out in the
framework of a project which aims to develop an integrative
platform for the multiple parametric analysis of cancer. We
illustrate our study through an elementary biomedical query
occurring in a CGH analysis scenario.
Keywords
bioinformatics, biological databases, metadata, user preferences
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Date Posted: 28 February 2007
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Postprint version. Published in Bioinformatics, Volume 20 Supplement 1, August 2004, pages i86-93.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bth949
NOTE: At the time of publication, author Sarah Cohen-Boulakia was affiliated with the Université Paris-Sud. Currently February 2007, she is a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania.