Journal
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 345-353Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbp029
Keywords
data integration; neuroinformatics; ontology; semantic web; user interface
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [P01 DC04732, R01 DA021253, U24 NS051869]
- The Fidelity Foundation
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As the number of neuroscience databases increases, the need for neuroscience data integration grows. This paper reviews and compares several approaches, including the Neuroscience Database Gateway (NDG), Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) and Entrez Neuron, which enable neuroscience database annotation and integration. These approaches cover a range of activities spanning from registry, discovery and integration of a wide variety of neuroscience data sources. They also provide different user interfaces for browsing, querying and displaying query results. In Entrez Neuron, for example, four different facets or tree views (neuron, neuronal property, gene and drug) are used to hierarchically organize concepts that can be used for querying a collection of ontologies. The facets are also used to define the structure of the query results.
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