SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FLEXIBLE ACCESS AND RETRIEVAL OF SEQUENCE DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF BIOLOGICAL DATA REPOSITORIES
摘要
A system (10) and method (150) for providing flexible access and retrieval of sequence data from a plurality of biological data repositories (28-30) is described. A plurality of biological data repositories are maintained. Each data repository (28-30) contains sequence data stored into structured records (90) uniquely identified. Each data repository (28-30) is interfaced through a queue handler (53) dynamically locating and selecting at least one such biological data repository (28-30) and launching a search query against each selected biological data repository (28-30). Search query parameters are accepted from a user specifying a search request for a sequence set (55). Results obtained from a search engine (54) are presented as ordered tables of search results (44).