An Integrated Ocean Biogeographic Information System for Knoweldge Discovery in Bioinformatics

罗格斯大学获得了一笔赠款，用于扩大、简化和增加海洋生物地理信息系统（OBIS）的功能和遵守社区标准。这项工作将为该系统增加生物建模服务、遗传信息服务、分类名称服务、环境绘图和增强的地理信息系统服务。它还将包括一个智能模式映射工具，以简化新数据库的整合。为了进一步促进一体化，将为业务基础信息系统修改分布式通用信息检索协议，并将建立一个分布式通用信息检索门户，通过联合搜索分布式数据库，进一步促进纳入更多的数据。

Rutgers University has been awarded a grant to expand, streamline and increase the functionality and adherence to community standards in the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The work will add a biological modeling service, a genetic information service, a taxonomic name service, environmental mapping and enhanced GIS services to the system. It will also incorporate an intelligent schema mapping tool to streamline the integration of new databases. To further facilitate integration, the Distributed Generic Information Retrieval (DiGIR) protocol will be modified for OBIS and a DiGIR portal will be established to further facilitate inclusion of much more data through federated searches of distributed databases.