BACIIS : Biological and Chemical Integrated Information System

生命科学数据是有价值的，很难产生；为了促进发现，分享它是很重要的。有效的数据库互操作性将促进生命科学数据的访问、检索、分析和与其他数据的结合。最初的努力集中在生命科学数据，特别是数据库涉及四种生物，植物，动物，昆虫和一个简单的真核生物。序列和结构的通用数据库也将被整合。提供集成专有数据和公共数据的方法将使与业界的合作成为可能。该系统基于中介-包装器方法，通过使用领域本体和独立的源数据模型，通过包装器归纳实现自动化。该系统将有助于克服许多生命科学数据库在可扩展性、维护和升级方面的挑战。

Life science data is valuable and hard to produce; it is important to share it in order to promote discovery. Effective database interoperability will facilitate the way life science data is accessed, retrieved, analyzed, and combined with other data. The original effort with focus on life science data, specifically databases concerned with four organisms, a plant, an animal, an insect and a simple eukaryote. General purpose databases of sequence and structure will also be integrated. The provision of methods for integrating proprietary data as well as public data will enable collaborations with industry. The system is based on a mediator-wrapper approach, which will be automated through wrapper induction, by using a domain ontology and independent source data models. The system will help overcome the scalability, maintenance and upgrade challenges in many life science databases.