Title
The BioMart community portal: An innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Smedley D.
Haider S.
Durinck S.
Pandini L.
Provero P.
Allen J.
Arnaiz O.
Awedh M.H.
Baldock R.
Barbiera G.
Bardou P.
Beck T.
Blake A.
Brookes A.J.
Bucci G.
Buetti I.
Burge S.
Cabau C.
Carlson J.W.
Chelala C.
Chrysostomou C.
Cittaro D.
Collin O.
Cordova R.
Cutts R.J.
Dassi E.
Di Genova A.
Djari A.
Esposito A.
Estrella H.
Eyras E.
Fernandez-Banet J.
Forbes S.
Free R.C.
Fujisawa T.
Gadaleta E.
Garcia-Manteiga J.M.
Goodstein D.
Gray K.
Guerra-Assunção J.A.
Haggarty B.
Han D.J.
Han B.W.
Harris T.
Harshbarger J.
Hastings R.K.
Hayes R.D.
Hoede C.
Hu S.
Hu Z.L.
Hutchins L.
Kan Z.
Kawaji H.
Keliet A.
Kerhornou A.
Kim S.
Kinsella R.
Klopp C.
Kong L.
Lawson D.
Lazarevic D.
Lee J.H.
Letellier T.
Li C.Y.
Lio P.
Liu C.J.
Luo J.
Maass A.
Mariette J.
Maurel T.
Merella S.
Mohamed A.M.
Moreews F.
Nabihoudine I.
Ndegwa N.
Noirot C.
Perez-Llamas C.
Primig M.
Quattrone A.
Quesneville H.
Rambaldi D.
Reecy J.
Riba M.
Rosanoff S.
Saddiq A.A.
Sallou O.
Shepherd R.
Sperling L.
Spooner W.
Staines D.M.
Steinbach D.
Stone K.
Stupka E.
Teague J.W.
Dayem Ullah A.Z.
Wang J.
Ware D.
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
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.
Start page
W589
End page
W598
Volume
43
Issue
W1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Genética, Herencia
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84979860632
PubMed ID
Source
Nucleic Acids Research
ISSN of the container
03051048
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus