Ron Shaker, Peter Mork, Matt Barclay and Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, M.D. University of Washington, Seattle WA A Rule Driven Bi-Directional Translation System for Remapping Queries and Result Sets Between a Mediated Schema and Heterogeneous Data Sources
Agenda Background Overview Architecture Detail Future Plans
Introduction Growing number of online biomedical data sources Need for an easy, homogeneous way to query these data sources Goal of GeneSeek
Background Ontology Definition
Background Mediated Schema Definition
Background Query Generation
Background Data Retrieval
Architecture Data Retrieval Process
Forward Mapping Rules Query URL
Forward Mapping Rules
Reverse Mapping Rules
Future Plans Tools for Biologists
Summary Simplicity Specialization Division of Labor Easy to Extend
Questions