The integrated biological databases search (iBioSearch) system
is aimed at providing a unifying interface and advanced
capability for searching
various
online biological databases. The iBioSearch system is
an online search system which dynamically builds a
biological database search ontology
as
the
user interface. The ontology acting as a global schema connects to
more
than online biological databases. User's queries against the
ontology
are
translated into queries against underlying online query
interfaces.
Query
results returned from the underlying databases are
consolidated,
reconciled, and
ranked by data cleansing and relevance computing
algorithms. Salient
features of iBioSearch system includes dynamically updating
biological
databases
repository and maintaining semantic mappings when base
databases evolve.