Biological Data Management: Research, Practice and Opportunities

Summary: Panel on Biological Data Management: terabyte-scale, diverse biomedical data; current DB tech falls short of biology’s needs. Explores acquisition, modeling, storage, integration, analysis, interpretation, and long-term management; summarizes stakeholder barriers (database researchers, bioscience users, bioinformatics practitioners). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9147
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.3513474e-05
Overall Rank: 5,726 | 60.17%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Thodoros Topaloglou

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,893	The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) System: A Case Study in Biological Data Management	2005	VLDB	5.2864279e-05
6,610	bdbms – A Database Management System for Biological Data	2007	CIDR	4.995269e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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