Journals and databanks

Behavioral Genetics Research and Criminal DNA Databanks

Can Score Databanks Help Teaching?

BACKGROUND Basic courses in most medical schools assess students' performance by conferring scores. The objective of this work is to use a large score databank for the early identification of students with low performance and to identify course trends based on the mean of students' grades. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We studied scores from 2,398 medical students registered in courses over ...

Classification systems for terminological databanks

Biological Databanks: Distribution, Heterogeneity, Diversity and Provenance

Advances in molecular biology and hardware technology, such as micro-arrays has made available a tremendous amount of data for biological scientists .In the first part of our paper we highlight the semistructured characteristics and complex nature of biological data and the substantial challenges it poses in data management. In the second part of this paper we stress the need for identifying ex...

Towards Transparent Access to Multiple Biological Databanks

Nowadays, biologists use a number of large biological databanks to find relevant information for their research. Users of these databanks face a number of problems. One problem is that users are required to have good knowledge about the contents, implementations and conceptual models of many databanks to be able to ask precise and relevant questions. Further, the terminology that is used in the...