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A Knowledge-Based Query System for Biological Databases

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Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2002)

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In more than one decade, genomic research produced a huge amount of experimental data. Although these data are usually freely available on theWorld WideWeb, accessing them in a consistent and fruitful way is not always an easy task. One of the main causes of this problem can be recognized in the lack of user interfaces that are sufficiently flexible and, at the same time, highly interactive and cooperative and also semantically precise. This paper tackles this issues by presenting a semantics drive paradigm for formulating queries to genomic and protein databases. The paradigm is founded on knowledge-based reasoning capabilities, in order to provide the user with a semantics driven guide in the difficult task of building the intended query.

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  1. ITC-irst, via Sommarive, 18, I-38050, Trento-Povo, Italy

    Paolo Bresciani

  2. Istituto Agrario di S.Michele all'Adige, via Mach 1 S. Michele a/Adige, TN, Italy

    Paolo Fontana

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jaime G. Carbonell

  2. University of Saarland, Saabrücken, Germany

    Jörg Siekmann

  3. Roskilde University, Building 42-1, P.O. Box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen  & Henning Christiansen  & 

  4. Department of Information and Software Engineering School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, 22030-4444, Virginia, USA

    Amihai Motro

  5. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Niels Bohrs Vej 8, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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Bresciani, P., Fontana, P. (2002). A Knowledge-Based Query System for Biological Databases. In: Carbonell, J.G., Siekmann, J., Andreasen, T., Christiansen, H., Motro, A., Legind Larsen, H. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36109-X_7

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