Mining Biological Databases

Jaime Prilusky, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003025

Advances in technology and efforts towards better self-knowledge are generating mountains of biological data stored in databases. Various techniques and tools are needed to separate the gold from the surrounding rock.

Keywords: data mining; knowledge discovery; intelligent agents

 Further Reading
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal [http://www.digimine.com/usama/datamine]

Related Sub-Topics:

Bioinformatics | Bioinformatics and Genetic Disease | Techniques and Tools in Molecular Biology | Computational Molecular Biology
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Prilusky, Jaime(Apr 2001) Mining Biological Databases. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003025]