Secure Simultaneous Search of Distributed, Heterogeneous Bioinformatics Databases

The field of bioinformatics has experienced rapid development during the last few years. The volume of data generated at universities and private firms has created a new problem for the bioinformatics researcher: how to retrieve the data from several distributed, heterogeneous databases and how to ensure that the retrieved data is securely transmitted in a computationally efficient fashion. Several attempts to integrate the databases or to create a graphical user interface for constructing SQL queries have met with limited success. This paper presents a model for searching and retrieving similar genomic data from multiple data sources and transmitting the data with a low cost authentication technique referred to as BioRLE. Retrieved information is presented in a user friendly interface.