Abstract
BLID (Bio-Logical Intelligent Database) is a bioinformatic
system designed to help biologists extract new knowledge from raw
genome data by providing high-level facilities for both data browsing
and analysis. We describe BLID's novel data browsing system which is
based on the idea of Logical Information Systems. This enables combined
querying and navigation of data in BLID (extracted from public bioinfor-
matic repositories). The browsing language is a logic especially designed
for bioinformatics. It currently includes sequence motifs, taxonomies, and
macromolecule structures, and it is designed to be easily extensible, as
it is composed of reusable components. Navigation is tightly combined
with this logic, and assists users in browsing a genome through a form
of human-computer dialog.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2004 |