Babel's tower revisited: a universal resource for cross-referencing across annotation databases | Zendy

Sorin Drăghici | Zendy; S. Sellamuthu | Zendy; Purvesh Khatri | Zendy

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Babel's tower revisited: a universal resource for cross-referencing across annotation databases

Author(s) -

Sorin Drăghici,

S. Sellamuthu,

Purvesh Khatri

Publication year - 2006

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/btl372

Subject(s) - refseq , annotation , uniprot , identifier , unigene , genbank , biological database , computer science , gene nomenclature , database , resource (disambiguation) , information retrieval , world wide web , bioinformatics , nomenclature , biology , genome , artificial intelligence , gene , expressed sequence tag , taxonomy (biology) , computer network , biochemistry , botany , programming language

Annotation databases are widely used as public repositories of biological knowledge. However, most of these resources have been developed by independent groups which used different designs and different identifiers for the same biological entities. As we show in this article, incoherent name spaces between various databases represent a serious impediment to using the existing annotations at their full potential. Navigating between various such name spaces by mapping IDs from one database to another is a very important issue which is not properly addressed at the moment.

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