NDLI: BioRegistry: automatic extraction of metadata for biological database retrieval and discovery

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Smail-Tabbone, Malika Messai, Nizar Franiatte, Philippe Devignes, Marie Dominique Napoli, Amedeo
Abstract	Biological databases are blooming today at an increasing rate to deal with the huge amount of data produced by genomic and post-genomic research. The need for a well-maintained searchable directory is therefore an important issue for a good exploitation of these databases. The BioRegistry repository is automatically generated from a publicly available list of biological databases (The Molecular Biology Database Collection published in Nucleic Acids Research) and aims at associating content metadata with each database in view of database retrieval and/or discovery. Such content metadata are either simple keywords or terms belonging to a medical thesaurus. Querying modalities including a search by semantic similarity are described. The use of conceptual clustering methods is proposed to build a semantic classification of biological databases enabling browsing through the BioRegistry repository and discovering previously unknown databases.
Starting Page	456
Ending Page	461
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605583495
DOI	10.1145/1497308.1497392
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-11-24
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Conceptual clustering Metadata Biological databases Resource discovery
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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BioRegistry: automatic extraction of metadata for biological database retrieval and discovery