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Biological Metadata Management

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Metadata characterize biological resources by core information including a name, a description of its input and its output (parameters or format), its address, and various additional properties. Resources are organized with respect to metadata that characterize their content (for data sources), their semantics (in terms of ontological classes and relationships), their characteristics (syntactical properties), their performance (with metrics and benchmarks), their quality (curation, reliability, trust), etc.

Historical Background

Digital resources for the Life Sciences include a variety of data sources and applications whose number increases dramatically every year [4]. Although this rich and valuable offering provides scientists with multiple options to implement and execute their scientific protocols (i.e., pipelines, dataflows, workflows), selecting the resources suitable for implementing each scientific step remains a difficult task. Scientific protocols are typically...

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  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Zoé Lacroix

  2. Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA

    Cartik R. Kothari

  3. The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA

    Peter Mork

  4. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Mark D. Wilkinson

  5. University Paris-Sud, Orsay Cedex, France

    Sarah Cohen-Boulakia

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Van Munching Hall (Mowatt Lane), 20742, College Park, MD, USA

    Louiqa Raschid

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Lacroix, Z., Kothari, C.R., Mork, P., Wilkinson, M.D., Cohen-Boulakia, S. (2017). Biological Metadata Management. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_628-2

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