| The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories Auteur(s) : Smedley, Damian Haider, Syed Durinck, Steffen Pandini, Luca Provero, Paolo Allen, James Arnaiz, Olivier Awedh, Mohammad Hamza Auteurs secondaires : European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton] (EMBL-EBI) ; European Molecular Biology Laboratory [Hinxton] Computer Laboratory [Cambridge] ; University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM) Genentech, Inc. ; Genentech, Inc. [San Francisco] San Raffaele Scientific Institute ; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and Center for Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biotechnology Centre ; Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biotechnology Centre Centre de génétique moléculaire (CGM) ; Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11) - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC) - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) King Abdulaziz University MRC Human Genetics Unit ; University of Edinburgh - Western General Hospital Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Oxford University Press Résumé : International audience The BioMart Community Portal (www.biomart.org) is a community-driven effort to provide a unified interface to biomedical databases that are distributed worldwide. The portal provides access to numerous database projects supported by 30 scientific organizations. It includes over 800 different biological datasets spanning genomics, proteomics, model organisms, cancer data, ontology information and more. All resources available through the portal are independently administered and funded by their host organizations. The BioMart data federation technology provides a unified interface to all the available data. The latest version of the portal comes with many new databases that have been created by our ever-growing community. It also comes with better support and extensibility for data analysis and visualization tools. A new addition to our toolbox, the enrichment analysis tool is now accessible through graphical and web service interface. The BioMart community portal averages over one million requests per day. Building on this level of service and the wealth of information that has become available, the BioMart Community Portal has introduced a new, more scalable and cheaper alternative to the large data stores maintained by specialized organizations. ISSN: 0305-1048 hal-01146849 https://hal-univ-rennes1.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01146849 DOI : 10.1093/nar/gkv350 PUBMED : 25897122 | Partager
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