Author/Editor		Smedley, Damian; Schofield, Paul N.; Chen, Chao-Kung; Aidinis, Vassilis; Ainali, Chrysanthi; Bard, Jonathan; Balling, Rudi; Birney, Ewan; Blake, Andrew; Bongcam-Rudloff, Erik; Brookes, Anthony J.; Hancock, John M.
Title		Finding and sharing
Type		članek
Vol. and No.		, št. Vol. 2010
Publication year		2010
Volume		str. 1-5
ISSN		1758-0463 - Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Language		eng
Abstract		The recent explosion of biological data and the concomitant proliferation of distributed databases make it challenging for biologists and bioinformaticians to discover the best data resources for their needs, and the most efficient way to access and use them. Despite a rapid acceleration in uptake of syntactic and semantic standards for interoperability, it is still difficult for users to find which databases support the standards and interfaces that they need. To solve these problems, several groups are developing registries of databases that capture key metadata describing the biological scope, utility, accessibility, ease-of-use and existence of web services allowing interoperability between resources. Here, we describe some of these initiatives including a novel formalism, the Database Description Framework, for describing database operations and functionality and encouraging good database practise. We expect such approaches will result in improved discovery, uptake and utilization of data resources.
Keywords		biomedical sciences databases biological data biomedicinske vede baze podatkov biološki podatki