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PathSys: integrating molecular interaction graphs for systems biology

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PathSys: integrating molecular interaction graphs for systems biology
Background: The goal of information integration in systems biology is to combine information from a number of databases and data sets, which are obtained from both high and low throughput experiments, under one data management scheme such that the cumulative information provides greater biological insight than is possible with individual information sources considered separately. Results: Here we present PathSys, a graph-based system for creating a combined database of networks of interaction for generating integrated view of biological mechanisms. We used PathSys to integrate over 14 curated and publicly contributed data sources for the budding yeast (S. cerevisiae) and Gene Ontology. A number of exploratory questions were formulated as a combination of relational and graph-based queries to the integrated database. Thus, PathSys is a general-purpose, scalable, graph-data warehouse of biological information, complete with a graph manipulation and a query language, a storage mechanism ...
Michael Baitaluk, Xufei Qian, Shubhada Godbole, Al
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Type Journal
Year 2006
Where BMCBI
Authors Michael Baitaluk, Xufei Qian, Shubhada Godbole, Alpan Raval, Animesh Ray, Amarnath Gupta
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