A federated DBMS-based integrated environment for molecular biology

摘要

Interest in database support for scientific information managementhas been considerably growing in the recent past. We look into onespecific scientific area, i.e. molecular biology. The analysis of thecurrent molecular biology working environment consisting of variousindependent software components shows several shortcomings and thusleads to requirements for an integrated working environment. We proposean architecture for an integrated system, the centre of which is afederated database system, the data repository. Its main benefits are acentral data administration, a uniform data representation, thepossibility of data reuse, and ad hoc query facilities. In addition, newapplication tools can be implemented on top of the repository easily andthus much faster than today