XomatiQ: living with genomes, proteomes, relations and a little bit of XML
Sourav Saha Bhowmick, P. Cruz, Amey Laud · 2005
In this paper, we describe a system called XomatiQ to ad-dress the problem of integration, querying and correlation of biological data. XomatiQ is an integral part of the ge-nomics Research Network Architecture (gRNA). The gRNA provides the development environment in which new appli-cations can be quickly written, and the deployment environ-ment in which they can systematically avail of computing resources and integrate information from distributed bio-logical data sources. Specifically, XomatiQ is build on top of the Data Hounds component. The Data Hounds trans-forms data from various sources to XML format and loads them into tuples of relational tables in a standard commer-cial DBMS. The XomatiQ provides capability for querying XML data using the underlying relational engine. XomatiQ has been fully implemented using Java. 1