BIDEL: An XML-based system for effective fast change detection of genomic and proteomic data

Abstract

A key issue to address in biological data integration is how to detect changes to the underlying biological data sources. In this demonstration, we present a novel system called BIDEL for detecting changes to genomic and proteomic data (sequences and annotations). We transform heterogeneous biological data to XML format (if necessary) and then detect changes between two versions of unordered XML representation of biological data. This demonstration will showcase the functionality of our system and the effectiveness of change detection in life sciences environment. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010.