(Almost) Hands-Off Information Integration for the Life Sciences

Summary: ALADIN is an almost fully automated pipeline for integrating heterogeneous life‑science sources via data/text mining, schema matching, and duplicate detection. Provides near‑zero‑cost integration that uncovers novel relationships for discovery and exposes new DB research problems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h279fc02d151296ce
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.760287e-05
Overall Rank: 6,508 | 56.25%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ulf Leser (Humboldt University of Berlin)
2. Felix Naumann (Humboldt University of Berlin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{leser_cidr05,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '05},
        title = {{(Almost) Hands-Off Information Integration for the Life Sciences}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Leser, Ulf and Naumann, Felix},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,589	Scalable Multi-Query Optimization for Exploratory Queries over Federated Scientific Databases	2008	VLDB	7.1867376e-05
5,851	A Dip in the Reservoir: Maintaining Sample Synopses of Evolving Datasets	2006	VLDB	5.9718136e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
182	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB	0.00026277842
1,567	Crossing the Structure Chasm	2003	CIDR	0.00010213092
1,728	Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures	1998	SIGMOD	9.7779564e-05

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