MyWEST: My Web Extraction Software Tool for effective mining of annotations from web-based databanks
Author(s) -
Marco Masseroli,
Andrea Stella,
Natalia Meani,
Myriam Alcalay,
Francesco Pinciroli
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth392
Subject(s) - computer science , software , world wide web , web application , web mining , data mining , software engineering , web page , data science , information retrieval , programming language
High-throughput technologies create the necessity to mine large amounts of gene annotations from diverse databanks, and to integrate the resulting data. Most databanks can be interrogated only via Web, for a single gene at a time, and query results are generally available only in the HTML format. Although some databanks provide batch retrieval of data via FTP, this requires expertise and resources for locally reimplementing the databank.
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