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标题：A Decentralized Approach to the Integration of Life Science Web Databases
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作者：Zina Ben Miled ; Nianhua Li ; Mark Baumgartner 等
期刊名称：Informatica
印刷版ISSN：1514-8327
电子版ISSN：1854-3871
出版年度：2003
卷号：27
期号：1
页码：3-14
出版社：The Slovene Society Informatika, Ljubljana
摘要：In the recent decades technological breakthroughs in science and engineering have led to an explosion in the amount of data available in several fields such as environmental, biological and chemical fields. One of the obstacles preventing this data from empowering new discoveries is the lack of adequate methods that can manage this data and turn it into knowledge. This paper presents a scalable solution to the management of life science databases. Life science web databases are often heterogeneous, geographically distributed and contain semi-structured data. The proposed system (BACIIS: Biological and Chemical Information Integration System) integrates these web databases on-demand. The architecture of BACIIS is decentralized. This design choice was made in order to overcome some of the limitations of remote web-based querying and to create a system that can adapt to an increasing number of users. This paper discusses the architecture of BACIIS and presents an analysis of its performance in response to queries submitted by multiple users
关键词：integration; biological databases; distributed architecture