title: Technologies for integrating biological data.
abstract: The process of building a new database relevant to some field of study in biomedicine involves transforming, integrating and cleansing multiple data sources, as well as adding new material and annotations. This paper reviews some of the requirements of a general solution to this data integration problem. Several representative technologies and approaches to data integration in biomedicine are surveyed. Then some interesting features that separate the more general data integration technologies from the more specialised ones are highlighted.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. limsoon@izr.a-star.edu.sg
authors.forename: Limsoon
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface