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Schema derivation for WWW information sources and their integration with databases in Bioinformatics

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In this paper we discuss first experiences and results of current work on the BioBench, an integrated information system for Bioinformatics. Since the major part of Bioinformatic data is distributed in many heterogeneous systems all over the world one has to deal with problems of integration of heterogeneous systems. Especially semi-structured data, presented via WWW-interfaces has to be integrated. Therefore, we focus on the aspects of acquisition, integration and management of the data for the BioBench. First we give a short motivation of the project and an overview of the system. In the main follows a discussion of schema derivation for the WWW-interfaces. Thereby, we discuss the application of domain knowledge and automatic grammar generation. Finally we briefly describe an automatic wrapper generation approach, supporting high quality wrappers as well as wrapper modification according to local schema or format evolutions.

This research was partially supported by the German State Sachsen-Anhalt under FKZ: 1987A/0025 and 1987/2527B and the Kurt-Eberhard-Bode-Foundation under FKZ: T 122/4

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Höding, M., Hofestädt, R., Saake, G., Scholz, U. (1998). Schema derivation for WWW information sources and their integration with databases in Bioinformatics. In: Litwin, W., Morzy, T., Vossen, G. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1475. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057742

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