Design of Bioinformatics Integrated Retrieval System
Bu young Ahn,
Jeong min Han, Yong ju
Shin, Ho nam Choi
Korea
Institute of Science and Technology Information, 335 Gwahangro,
Yuseong, Deajeon, 305-806,
Biological information data is made up of various types of
databases due to their different and complex formats and properties.
Therefore, users who want to get information from biological databases have
trouble to connect
to each site offering data and/or to search some information in a way the site
provided. In
this paper, we tried to design the integrated retrieval system that users are able to get
information from a lot of heterogeneous databases such as Genbank (genomic sequence data), PDB (proteomic data), PIR,
Swiss-Prot, and
NDSL (National Digital Science Library) Database by one query in order to reduce these
difficulties. This
integrated retrieval system will settle the problem that users have to search information by
connecting to various sites, and at the same time, contribute to bioinformatics
researchers analyzing numerous search results to get more effective results.