Data integration

Data integration

Loose coupling, combining datasets to improve annotation quality, evidence combination; Ontologies

Contents

Cross referencing

Biological identifiers can cross reference each other IF their semantics allow mapping from one to the other...

Evidence combination

Annotation quality can be improved if evidence can be used from varying sources. But how can such evidence be weighted and combined? How can confidence scores be constructed?

Ontologies

Ontologies describe the semantics of a field of knowledge. They are indispensable for data integration across non-uniform databases.

Introductory reading

Exercises

References

Further reading and resources