BioMetaDB: Ontology-based Classification and Extension of Biodatabases

Ching-Fen Chang, Chang-Hsien Lin, Chuan-Hsiung Chang

2014

Abstract

The recent rapid increase in high-throughput biological data and computational tools has facilitated the establishments of numerous biodatabases as the repositories of biodata and bioinformatics analysis tools. Due to the inefficiency of database categorization, the search of all available information of research interests costs researchers a lot of time and efforts. We have established BioMetaDB for users to systematically identify all the available databases of their interests and to extend databases on relevance biomedical contents. For the purpose of establishing BioMetaDB to provide semantically annotated corpus to markup the instances of biomedical ontology, our BioMetaDB comprises three main tasks: (1) biological information retrieval from public databases; (2) creating an integrated ontology repository for biological and medical studies based on expert-tagged corpus; (3) establish web services to enable users to access all their desired databases by systemically ontology query. Based on biomedical ontologies, we indexed all the databases by their relevant biological features, and further evaluated the relevance among the databases. Our BioMetaDB, a comprehensive compendium of biological databases, is currently integrated from over 1,500 digital sources.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chang C., Chang C. and Lin C. (2014). BioMetaDB: Ontology-based Classification and Extension of Biodatabases . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-012-3, pages 156-163. DOI: 10.5220/0004801001560163

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bioinformatics14,
author={Ching-Fen Chang and Chuan-Hsiung Chang and Chang-Hsien Lin},
title={BioMetaDB: Ontology-based Classification and Extension of Biodatabases},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={156-163},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004801001560163},
isbn={978-989-758-012-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2014)
TI - BioMetaDB: Ontology-based Classification and Extension of Biodatabases
SN - 978-989-758-012-3
AU - Chang C.
AU - Chang C.
AU - Lin C.
PY - 2014
SP - 156
EP - 163
DO - 10.5220/0004801001560163