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Transparent access to multiple bioinformatics information sources (TAMBIS)

Reference	BIF05344
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Andy Brass
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Carole Goble, Professor John Gurd
Institution	The University of Manchester
Department	Life Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	185,476
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/10/1995
End date	31/12/1998
Duration	39 months

Abstract

A large number of databases and information services are available within the bioinformatics community. These services are organised as a loose federation of autonomous, heterogeneous data repositories, making it very difficult to perform multidatabase queries or even know what facilities are available. Software agents (TAMBIS agents) will therefore be created to mediate the users between these services and provide transparent access to multiple bioinformatics information sources. A canonical representation of bioinformatics knowledge will be created (using techniques developed for medical informatics) to allow the agent to communicate between this wide range of heterogeneous resources. Mobile agents will also be constructed to actively seek out new bioinformatics resources to make them available to the TAMBIS agents.

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Bioinformatics (BIF) [1995-1997]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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