Life science research and data management—what can they give each other?

  • Authors:
  • Amarnath Gupta

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

"Databases for the life sciences" is not really a newly emerging area in databases. The Nucleotide Sequence Database from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) has been operational at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) since 1980. SWISS-PROT, the classical database containing protein information, was established in 1986. Today, there are over a thousand different life science databases with contents ranging from gene-property data for different organisms to brain image data for patients with neurological disorders.