3. Elements of standardization
Without resolving the problem of the semantic heterogeneity of biological data (intrinsic to the field), a number of standards have been developed to help identify instances (i.e. to identify the presence of the same biological object) across databases and move towards consensual definitions of biological concepts. We begin by presenting these initiatives (§ 3.1 ). We then describe the access portals that have been developed, enabling unified access to data by providing solutions in which syntactic heterogeneity is addressed (§ ...
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Bibliography
Databases
Sites of the main databases cited in this document
DDBJ http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/ (page consulted on January 20, 2015)
Ensembl http://www.ensembl.org/index.html (page consulted on January 20,...
Events
DILS: Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Annual international conference dedicated to the field of biological data integration
SSDBM: Statistical and Scientific Data Base Management
Annual international conference dedicated to data management in scientific and statistical databases
Standards and norms
Standards for representing provenance
PROV-Overview http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ (page consulted on January 20, 2015)
The XML (Extensible Markup Language) standard http://www.w3.org/XML/...
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