Review of the selected proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2008

Authors: Amos Bairoch, Sarah Cohen-Boulakia and Christine Froidevaux

Integrating protein-protein interactions and text mining for protein function prediction

Functional annotation of proteins remains a challenging task. Currently the scientific literature serves as the main source for yet uncurated functional annotations, but curation work is slow and expensive. Au...

Authors: Samira Jaeger, Sylvain Gaudan, Ulf Leser and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann

Integrating biological data – the Distributed Annotation System

The Distributed Annotation System (DAS) is a widely adopted protocol for dynamically integrating a wide range of biological data from geographically diverse sources. DAS continues to expand its applicability a...

Authors: Andrew M Jenkinson, Mario Albrecht, Ewan Birney, Hagen Blankenburg, Thomas Down, Robert D Finn, Henning Hermjakob, Tim JP Hubbard, Rafael C Jimenez, Philip Jones, Andreas Kähäri, Eugene Kulesha, José R Macías, Gabrielle A Reeves and Andreas Prlić