Data Integration in Bioinformatics using OGSA-DAI
Shirley Crompton, Brian W. Matthews, William Alexander Gray, Andrew Jones, Richard J. White · ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) · 2005
The BioDA project is investigating how Bioinformatics GRIDs, a data and compute intensive domain, could benefit from using a standard framework, such as OGSA-DAI, to manage access to, and integration of, distributed heterogeneous data resources. In this paper, we outline the common data access and integration requirements from the bioinformatics community. We then highlight some specific issues encountered while designing an OGSA-DAI exemplar application for BiodiversityWorld, a Biodiversity GRID that specialises in extracting knowledge from correlating a plethora of distributed heterogeneous data sources in the study of biodiversity patterns. 1