Design of Wrapper Integration Within the DataFoundry Bioinformatics Application

Anderson, J ; Critchlow, T

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

关键词: Computers;    Implementation;    Design;    Performance;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;   

DOI  :  10.2172/15002882
RP-ID  :  UCRL-ID-149835
RP-ID  :  W-7405-ENG-48
RP-ID  :  15002882

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The DataFoundry bioinformatics application was designed to enable scientists to directly interact with large datasets, gathered from multiple remote data sources, through a graphical, interactive interface. Gathering information from multiple data sources, integrating that data, and providing an interface to the accumulated data is non-trivial. Advanced techniques are required to develop a solution that adequately completes this task. One possible solution to this problem involves the use of specialized information access programs that are able to access information and transmute that information to a form usable by a single application. These information access programs, called wrappers, were decided to be the most appropriate way to extend the DataFoundry bioinformatics application to support data integration from multiple sources. By adding wrapper support into the DataFoundry application, it is hoped that this system will be able to provide a single access point to bioinformatics data for scientists. We describe some of the computer science concepts, design, and the implementation of adding wrapper support into the DataFoundry bioinformatics application, and then discuss issues of performance.