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

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