An Integrated Ocean Biogeographic Information System for Knoweldge Discovery in Bioinformatics

罗格斯大学（Rutgers University）获得了一笔赠款，用于扩展、简化和增加海洋生物地理信息系统（OBIS）的功能，并遵守社区标准。这项工作将增加一项生物建模服务、一项遗传信息服务、一项分类学名称服务、环境制图和增强的地理信息系统服务。它还将包含一个智能模式映射工具，以简化新数据库的集成。为了进一步促进集成，OBIS将修改分布式通用信息检索（DiGIR）协议，并将建立一个DiGIR门户，通过对分布式数据库的联合搜索进一步促进包含更多数据。

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.