Database Challenges in the Integration of Biomedical Data Sets

Summary: Integration of heterogeneous biomedical datasets across clinical, genomic, and phenotypic data; storage, querying, analysis, and visualization. Proposes a data-warehouse-based solution and tools enabling national-scale federated biomed data management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9330
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 5.8082742e-05
Overall Rank: 6,668 | 54.26%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50107-8

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rakesh Nagarajan (Washington University School of Medicine)
2. Mushtaq Ahmed (Persistence Software)
3. Aditya Phatak (Persistence Software)

BibTeX Citation

@article{nagarajan_vldb04,
        title = {{Database Challenges in the Integration of Biomedical Data Sets}},
        author = {Nagarajan, Rakesh and Ahmed, Mushtaq and Phatak, Aditya},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50107-8},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50107-8},
        year = {2004}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,054	The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) System: A Case Study in Biological Data Management	2005	VLDB	5.7171059e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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