title: Characterizing heterogeneous molecular biology database systems.
abstract: Molecular biology data are distributed among multiple databases. Although containing related data, these databases are often isolated and are characterized by various degrees of heterogeneity: they usually represent different views (schemas) of the scientific domain and are implemented using different data management systems. Currently, several systems support managing data in heterogeneous molecular biology databases. Lack of clear criteria for characterizing such systems precludes comprehensive evaluations of these systems or determining their relationships in terms of shared goals and facilities. In this paper, we propose criteria that would facilitate characterizing, evaluating, and comparing heterogeneous molecular biology database systems.
authors.affiliation: Information and Computing Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA 94720, USA. vmmarkowitz@lbl.gov
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Markowitz
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ritter
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000145:classification; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008967:Molecular Biology