Restructuring the genome data base: a model for a federation of biological databases.
The creation of a federation of public biological databases has been proposed. Formerly independent systems will need to be modified to interoperate better within this federation. This will enable the federated system to provide biologists with an integrated view of biological data. The GDB Human Genome Data Base is being restructured to participate in the proposed federation. GDB itself will be organized into a collection of related data sets in support of human gene mapping. The techniques that will be used to link these data sets will be applicable to the federation as a whole. Links will be based on stable accession numbers that have no inherent information content and are guaranteed always to be recognized. Improvements will be made in the links between GDB and the nucleotide sequence databases to test this approach further.
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Division of Biomedical Information Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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