Weighted rank aggregation of cluster validation measures
Bioinformatics
IEEE Internet Computing
DILS '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Search Computing: challenges and Directions
Search Computing: challenges and Directions
Chapter 15: search computing and the life sciences
Search Computing
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Search computing has been proposed to support the integration of the results of search engines with other data and computational resources. In essence, in search computing, search services provide ranked answers to requests, and mechanisms are provided for integrating results from multiple searches. This paper presents a case study of the use of a domain independent search computing platform for describing well known bioinformatics resources as search services, and for carrying out integrated analyses over the resulting services. In particular, this makes explicit how ranked data from sequence comparisons and from gene expression results can be integrated in a way that takes account of the ranked results from the different types of data. In so doing, the paper illustrates the use of ranking as a first class citizen for data integration in the life sciences, and identifies open issues for further investigation.