Formal principles governing best practices in classification and definition have for too long been neglected in the construction of biomedical ontologies, in ways which have import...
For transferring data between heterogeneous databases, XML is becoming a method of choice. While deployment is generally successfully, there are barriers to overcome. A recent exa...
New technologies used in biology are generating huge quantities of data; up to two petabytes of overall data are to be expected by the end of the decade. Modern biology also has t...
Curating information from the literature for storage in databases is a crucial task in biological research, and many groups assign a particular person or team to that process. We ...
Cloud computing has emerged as a new approach to large scale computing and is attracting a lot of attention from the scientific and research computing communities. Despite its gro...