title: Selecting biomedical data sources according to user preferences.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://www.lri.fr/~cohen/dss/dss.html
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, CNRS UMR 8623, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France. cohen@lri.fr
authors.forename: Sarah Cohen
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Boulakia
authors.forename: Séverine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lair
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stransky
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Graziani
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Radvanyi
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barillot
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Froidevaux
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods; D018511:Systems Integration; D014584:User-Computer Interface