Model-Driven Architecture in Practice: A Software Production Environment Based on Conceptual Modeling
Conceptual Modeling Meets the Human Genome
ER '08 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems
Conceptual Modeling of Information Systems
Model-based engineering applied to the interpretation of the human genome
The evolution of conceptual modeling
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While Information Systems (IS) principles have been successfully applied to the design, implementation and management of a diverse set of domains, the Bioinformatics domain in general and the Genomic one in particular, often lacks a rigorous IS background, based on elaborating a precise Conceptual Model where the relevant concepts of the domain were properly defined. On the contrary, current genomic data repositories focus on the solution space in the form of diverse, ad-hoc databases that use to be hard to manage, evolve and intercommunicate. Conceptual Modeling as a central strategy is then far from the current biological data source ontologies that are heterogeneous, imprecise and too often even inconsistent when compared among them. To solve this problem, a concrete Conceptual Schema for the Human Genome (CSHG) is introduced in its latest version on this chapter. With a holistic perspective, the CSHG focuses on the different genomic views that must be integrated and emphasizes the value of the approach in order to deal appropriately the challenge of correctly interpreting the human genome.