A protein patent query system powered by Kleisli
Jing Chen, Limsoon Wong, Louxin Zhang · 1998
Introduction Kleisli [5] is an integration technology that is rather suitable in the bioinformatics arena. Many bioinformatics problems (1) require access to data sources that are highly heterogeneous, geographically distributed, highly complex, constantly evolving, and high in volume; (2) require solutions that involve multiple carefully sequenced steps; and (3) require information to be passed smoothly between the steps. Kleisli is designed to handle these requirements directly. In particular, Kleisli provides the high-level query language CPL [4] that can be used to express complicated transformation across multiple data sources in a simple way. We developed a prototype system to more effectively query protein patents. This system uses Kleisli to tie together the following sources to answer queries on protein patents that are considerably more demanding than simple free-text search: (1) the protein section of the Entrez system at the National Center for Biotechnology Inform