Software Tools for Interoperable Taxonomic Databases

可互操作分类数据库的软件工具

• 批准号: 9631047
• 负责人: Lois Blaine
• 金额: $ 31.99万
• 依托单位: American Type Culture Collection
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9631047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Software; Tools; Interoperable; Taxonomic; Databases

A team of collaborators from seven bioinformatics research organizations proposes to enhance existing software tools to create a World Wide Web (WWW) based expert taxonomic resource that will be immediately valuable for the international virology community and will serve as a prototype for taxonomic data resources in other biological disciplines. Expanding on previously funded NSF project, the team will complete development of the software infrastructure for providing real time access to the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses' database (ICTVdB). This taxonomic knowledge base will combine the advantages of local, warehoused datafiles with the ability to establish dynamic links to distributed forms of data and will provide for immediate updating of the files. Enhancement and modification of the DELTA suite of programs, used for taxonomic research and biodiversity studies, will permit data analysis and identification of organisms via the WWW. Linking of ICTV data with other biological datasets, e.g., genomic data, graphics, repository, and reference data via HTML and the web will enable taxonomic comparisons based on genetic and phenotypic data analysis. Use of the Web/Genera and Sybase software to enable SQL queries and online data entry/updates over the Internet to a relational database interoperating with DELTA will give taxonomists and other researchers multiple access points and data management capabilities, depending on their specific requirements. The proposed data resource will conform to prescribed standards in data modeling, syntax and semantics, thus facilitating membership in the emerging "federation" of biological database developers. It will also serve as a utility to enhance modeling of complex biological systems.

来自七个生物信息学研究组织的一个合作者小组建议加强现有的软件工具，以创建一个基于万维网（WWW）的专家分类资源，这将立即对国际病毒学界有价值，并将作为其他生物学科分类数据资源的原型。该小组将扩大以前资助的NSF项目，完成软件基础设施的开发，以提供对国际病毒分类委员会数据库（ICTVdB）的真实的实时访问。这一分类知识库将联合收割机结合当地储存的档案的优点和建立与分布式数据的动态链接的能力，并将提供档案的立即更新。用于分类学研究和生物多样性研究的DELTA系列程序的增强和修改将允许通过万维网进行数据分析和生物识别。ICTV数据与其他生物数据集的链接，例如，通过HTML和网络的基因组数据、图形、知识库和参考数据将使基于遗传和表型数据分析的分类学比较成为可能。使用Web/Genera和P2P软件，通过互联网向与DELTA相互操作的关系数据库进行SQL查询和在线数据输入/更新，将使分类学家和其他研究人员根据其具体要求获得多个接入点和数据管理能力。拟议的数据资源将符合规定的标准，在数据建模，语法和语义，从而促进成员在新兴的“联合会”的生物数据库开发商。它也将作为一个实用程序，以加强复杂的生物系统的建模。