Bioinformatics or computational biology, i.e. the application of mathematical and computer science methods to solving problems in molecular biology that require large scale data, computation, and analysis, is a research area currently receiving a considerable attention. Databases play an essential role in molecular biology and consequently in bioinformatics. molecular biology data are often rel...

An important emerging need in Model Organism Databases (MODs) and other bioinformatics databases (DBs) is that of capturing the scienti c evidence that supports the information within a DB. This need

With the development of human genome projects ( HGP) in the world, a mass of genetic information is generated. Now there are hundreds of different kinds of important bioinformatics databases in the world. How to unify the bioinformatics database from different countries has become an important issue in Bioinformatics. In this paper, we present a data integration program based on Web Services of...

Post 'omic' era has resulted in the development of many primary, secondary and derived databases. Many analytical and visualization bioinformatics tools have been developed to manage and analyze the data available through large sequencing projects. Availability of heterogeneous databases and tools make it difficult for researchers to access information from varied sources and run different bioi...

Data integration is a key issue in the domain of bioinformatics, which deals with huge amounts of heterogeneous biological data that grows and changes rapidly. This paper serves as an introduction in the field of bioinformatics and the biological concepts it deals with, and an exploration of the integration problems a bioinformatics scientist faces. We examine ProGMap, an integrated protein hom...

Ever since the advent of bioinformatics to assist research in the research area of protein database query, there are many tools that enabled biologist to query biological databases to elucidate protein secondary structure assignment. However, currently there is a limited means that provides a query capability to search information on secondary structure from structural database in context of pr...

Intellectual property (IP) protection for bioinformatics databases plays a key role in accelerating development of biological sciences and biotechnological industry. This paper presents current and global position of IP protection in bioinformatics database. A protection method has been proposed after analysing characteristics of bioinformatics databases and considering different database prote...

Presently, there are numerous bioinformatics databases available on different websites. Although RDF was proposed as a standard format for the web, these databases are still available in various formats. With the increasing popularity of the semantic web technologies and the ever growing number of databases in bioinformatics, there is a pressing need to develop mashup systems to help the proces...