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Nature Reviews Genetics 4, 337-345 (May 2003) | doi:10.1038/nrg1065

Integrating biological databases

Lincoln D. Stein1  About the author

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Recent years have seen an explosion in the amount of available biological data. More and more genomes are being sequenced and annotated, and protein and gene interaction data are accumulating. Biological databases have been invaluable for managing these data and for making them accessible. Depending on the data that they contain, the databases fulfil different functions. But, although they are architecturally similar, so far their integration has proved problematic.

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  1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA.
    Email: lstein@cshl.org
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