Heterogeneous Database Management Systems

Background

A Brief Introduction: Heterogenous Molecular Biology Database Systems

Characterizing Heterogeneous Molecular Biology Database Systems, V.M. Markowitz and O. Ritter,

Journal of Computational Biology, Vol 2, No 4, 1995, pp. 547-556.

Challenges in Integrating Biological Data Sources, S. Davidson, C. Overton, and P. Buneman,

Journal of Computational Biology, Vol 2, No 4, 1995, pp. 557-572.

A Strategy for Database Interoperation , P. Karp,

Journal of Computational Biology, Vol 2, No 4, 1995, pp. 573-583.

Beyond the Information Maze, Stanley Letovsky,

Journal of Computational Biology, Vol 2, No 4, 1995, pp. 539-546.

Coping with Data Modeling Diversity, V.M. Markowitz,

Presented at the 2nd Meeting on Interconnection of Molecular Biology Databases, 1995,

Projects

Retrofitting Relational Databases with Object Interfaces.

OPM*QS: The Object-Protocol Model Multidatabase Query System.

Related Systems

SRS, An Indexing and Retrieval Tools for Flat File Data Libraries

EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

The Integrated Genomic Database (IGD)

DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany

GenoBase Database Gateway

Bioinformatics and Molecular Analysis Section, NIH

Entrez

NCBI, NIH

DBGET

Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan

Kleisli

Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

ENQUire

Community Systems Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign