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Fourth IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE'04)
Towards Ubiquitous Bio-Information Computing: Data Protocols, Middleware, and Web Services for Heterogeneous Biological Information Integration and Retrieval
Taichung, Taiwan, ROC
May 19-May 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2173-8
Pengyu Hong, Harvard University
Sheng Zhong, Harvard University
Wing H. Wong, Harvard University
Biological information computing is rapidly advancing from homogeneous data computation to large-scale heterogeneous data computation. However, the development of data specification protocols, software middleware, and Web services, which support large-scale heterogeneous data exchange, integration, and computation, generally falls behind data expansion rates and bioinformatics demands. The Ubiquitous Bio-Information Computing (UBIC{2}) project aims to disseminate software packages to assist the development of heterogeneous bio-information computing applications that are interoperable and may run distributedly. UBIC{2} lays down the software architecture for integrating, retrieving, and manipulating heterogeneous biological information so that data behave like being stored in a unified database. UBIC{2} programming library implements the software architecture and provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate the development of heterogeneous bio-information computing applications. To achieve interoperability, UBIC{2} Web services use XML-based data communication means, which allow distributed applications to consume heterogeneous bio-information regardless of platforms. The documents and software package of UBIC{2} are available at http://www.ubic2.org.
Index Terms:
Data Integration, Middleware, Interoperability, Ubiquitous Bio-Information Computing
Citation:
Pengyu Hong, Sheng Zhong, Wing H. Wong, "Towards Ubiquitous Bio-Information Computing: Data Protocols, Middleware, and Web Services for Heterogeneous Biological Information Integration and Retrieval," bibe, pp.57, Fourth IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE'04), 2004
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