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7. Glossary – Definitions
Integration; Integration
Unified access to distributed (geographically distributed) and heterogeneous data.
Instance; Instance
Data. Object. In the context of relational databases, a data instance in a table is a row in that table.
Megabase; megabase
Unit of measurement for assessing the size of a genome, in thousands of nucleotides.
Ontology; Ontologie
An ontology is a conceptualization of a domain of study. It specifies this domain, i.e. it describes it formally. In concrete terms, an ontology is a set of terms (words) and relations between these terms. The language used to formalize the ontology (and the set of axioms associated with it) is used by an inference engine to discover new knowledge (logical inference)....
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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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