Information Extraction and Integration from Heterogeneous Biological Data Sources

There are huge and growing amounts of biological data that reside in different online repositories. Most of these Web-based sources only focus on some specific areas or only allow limited types of user queries. To obtain needed information, biologists usually have to traverse different Web sources and combine their data manually. In this research, we propose a system that can help users to overcome these difficulties. Given a user’s query within the the area of molecular biology, our system can automatically discover appropriate repositories, retrieve useful information from these repositories and integrate the retrieved information together.