Research report 2009 - Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
Making connections: Data integration in biology
Authors
Schoof, Heiko
Departments
Unabhängige Forschergruppen
MPI für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung, Köln
Summary
Modern molecular biology employs high-throughput methods, for example to determine genome sequences. Their analysis and interpretation increasingly requires integration of heterogeneous data. Standards for access to biological data and web service technologies can facilitate automated finding and invocation of bioinformatics resources.