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16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'04)
Exploiting Multiple Paths to Express Scientific Queries
Santorini Island, Greece
June 21-June 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2146-0
Zo? Lacroix, Arizona State University
Tiffany Morris, Arizona State University
Kaushal Parekh, Arizona State University
Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland
Maria-Esther Vidal, Universidad Sim?n Bol?var
The purpose of this demonstration is to present the main features of the BioNavigation system. Scientific data collection needed in various stages of scientific discovery is typically performed manually. For each scientific object of interest (e.g., a gene, a sequence), scientists query a succession of Web resources following links between retrieved entries. Each of the steps provides part of the intended characterization of the scientific object. This process is sometimes partially supported by hard-coded scripts or complex queries that will be evaluated by a mediation-based data integration system or against a data warehouse. These approaches fail in guiding the scientists during the collection process. In contrast, the BioNavigation approach presented in the paper provides the scientists with information on the available alternative resources, their provenance, and the costs of data collection. The BioNavigation system enhances a mediation-based integration system and provides scientists with support for the following:
⦁ To ask queries at a high conceptual level;
⦁ To visualize the multiple alternative resources that may be exploited to execute their data collection queries;
⦁ To choose the final execution path to evaluate their queries.
Citation:
Zo? Lacroix, Tiffany Morris, Kaushal Parekh, Louiqa Raschid, Maria-Esther Vidal, "Exploiting Multiple Paths to Express Scientific Queries," ssdbm, pp.357, 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM'04), 2004
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