title: InterMine: a flexible data warehouse system for the integration and analysis of heterogeneous biological data.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  InterMine is an open-source data warehouse system that facilitates the building of databases with complex data integration requirements and a need for a fast customizable query facility. Using InterMine, large biological databases can be created from a range of heterogeneous data sources, and the extensible data model allows for easy integration of new data types. The analysis tools include a flexible query builder, genomic region search and a library of 'widgets' performing various statistical analyses. The results can be exported in many commonly used formats. InterMine is a fully extensible framework where developers can add new tools and functionality. Additionally, there is a comprehensive set of web services, for which client libraries are provided in five commonly used programming languages.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Freely available from http://www.intermine.org under the LGPL license.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  g.micklem@gen.cam.ac.uk
  
  
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  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK.
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mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D057225:Data Mining; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet; D011381:Programming Languages