An intelligent biological information management system

  • Authors:
  • Mathew Palakal;Snehasis Mukhopadhyay;Javed Mostafa

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University Purdue, University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN;Indiana University Purdue, University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN;Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

As biomedical researchers are amassing a plethora of information in a variety of forms resulting from the advancements in biomedical research, there is a critical need for innovative information management and knowledge discovery tools to sift through these vast volumes of heterogeneous data and analysis tools. In this paper we present a general model for an information management system that is adaptable and scalable, followed by a detailed design and implementation of one component of the model. The prototype, called BioSifter, was applied to problems in the bioinformatics area. The results indicate that BioSifter is a powerful tool for biological researchers to automatically retrieve relevant text documents from biological literature based on their interest profile. The paper also presents experimental studies with real users to illustrate the efficacy of the approach.