Bioinformatics : managing scientific data / edited by Zoé Lacroix and Terence Critchlow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Zoe Lacroix and Terence Critchlow -- 2. Challenges Faced in the Integration of Biological Information / Su Yun Chung and John C. Wooley -- 3. A Practitioner's Guide to Data Management and Data Integration in Bioinformatics / Barbara A. Eckman -- 4. Issues to Address While Designing a Biological Information System / Zoe Lacroix -- 5. SRS: An Integration Platform for Databanks and Analysis Tools in Bioinformatics / Thure Etzold, Howard Harris and Simon Beaulah -- 6. The Kleisli Query System as a Backbone for Bioinformatics Data Integration and Analysis / Jing Chen, Su Yun Chung and Limsoon Wong -- 7. Complex Query Formulation Over Diverse Information Sources in TAMBIS / Robert Stevens, Carole Goble, Norman W. Paton, Sean Bechhofer, Gary Ng, Patricia Baker and Andy Brass -- 8. The Information Integration System K2 / Val Tannen, Susan B. Davidson and Scott Harker -- 9. P/FDM Mediator for a Bioinformatics Database Federation / Graham J. L. Kemp and Peter M. D. Gray -- 10. Integration Challenges in Gene Expression Data Management / Victor M. Markowitz, John Campbell, I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Krishna Palaniappan and Thodoros Topaloglou -- 11. DiscoveryLink / Laura M. Haas, Barbara A. Eckman, Prasad Kodali, Eileen T. Lin, Julia E. Rice and Peter M. Schwarz -- 12. A Model-Based Mediator System for Scientific Data Management / Bertram Ludascher, Amarnath Gupta and Maryann E. Martone -- 13. Compared Evaluation of Scientific Data Management Systems / Zoe Lacroix and Terence Critchlow.