TY - JOUR
T1 - Finding and sharing: New approaches to registries of databases and services for the biomedical sciences
AU - Smedley, Damian
AU - Schofield, Paul
AU - Chen, Chao-Kung
AU - Aidinis, Vassilis
AU - Ainali, Chrysanthi
AU - Bard, Jonathan
AU - Balling, Rudi
AU - Birney, Ewan
AU - Blake, Andrew
AU - Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik
AU - Brookes, Anthony J
AU - Cesareni, Gianni
AU - Chandras, Christina
AU - Eppig, Janan
AU - Flicek, Paul
AU - Gkoutos, Georgios
AU - Greenaway, Simon
AU - Gruenberger, Michael
AU - Heriche, Jean-Karim
AU - Lyall, Andrew
AU - Mallon, Ann-Marie
AU - Muddyman, Dawn
AU - Reisinger, Florian
AU - Ringwald, Martin
AU - Rosenthal, Nadia A
AU - Schughart, Klaus
AU - Swertz, Morris
AU - Thorisson, Gudmundur A
AU - Zouberakis, Michael
AU - Hancock, John M
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The recent explosion of biological data and the concomitant proliferation of distributed databases make it challenging for biologists and bioinformaticians to discover the best data resources for their needs, and the most efficient way to access and use them. Despite a rapid acceleration in uptake of syntactic and semantic standards for interoperability, it is still difficult for users to find which databases support the standards and interfaces that they need. To solve these problems, several groups are developing registries of databases that capture key metadata describing the biological scope, utility,
accessibility, ease-of-use and existence of web services allowing interoperability between resources. Here, we describe some
of these initiatives including a novel formalism, the Database Description Framework, for describing database operations and functionality and encouraging good database practise. We expect such approaches will result in improved discovery, uptake and utilization of data resources.
AB - The recent explosion of biological data and the concomitant proliferation of distributed databases make it challenging for biologists and bioinformaticians to discover the best data resources for their needs, and the most efficient way to access and use them. Despite a rapid acceleration in uptake of syntactic and semantic standards for interoperability, it is still difficult for users to find which databases support the standards and interfaces that they need. To solve these problems, several groups are developing registries of databases that capture key metadata describing the biological scope, utility,
accessibility, ease-of-use and existence of web services allowing interoperability between resources. Here, we describe some
of these initiatives including a novel formalism, the Database Description Framework, for describing database operations and functionality and encouraging good database practise. We expect such approaches will result in improved discovery, uptake and utilization of data resources.
UR - http://database.oxfordjournals.org/content/2010/baq014.full.pdf+html
U2 - 10.1093/database/baq014
DO - 10.1093/database/baq014
M3 - Article
VL - 2010
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - Database: the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
JF - Database: the Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
SN - 1758-0463
M1 - baq014
ER -