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. 2012 Dec 1;28(23):3163-5.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts577. Epub 2012 Sep 27.

InterMine: a flexible data warehouse system for the integration and analysis of heterogeneous biological data

Richard N Smith  1 , Jelena Aleksic, Daniela Butano, Adrian Carr, Sergio Contrino, Fengyuan Hu, Mike Lyne, Rachel Lyne, Alex Kalderimis, Kim Rutherford, Radek Stepan, Julie Sullivan, Matthew Wakeling, Xavier Watkins, Gos Micklem
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InterMine: a flexible data warehouse system for the integration and analysis of heterogeneous biological data

Richard N Smith et al. Bioinformatics. .

Abstract

Summary: InterMine is an open-source data warehouse system that facilitates the building of databases with complex data integration requirements and a need for a fast customizable query facility. Using InterMine, large biological databases can be created from a range of heterogeneous data sources, and the extensible data model allows for easy integration of new data types. The analysis tools include a flexible query builder, genomic region search and a library of 'widgets' performing various statistical analyses. The results can be exported in many commonly used formats. InterMine is a fully extensible framework where developers can add new tools and functionality. Additionally, there is a comprehensive set of web services, for which client libraries are provided in five commonly used programming languages.

Availability: Freely available from http://www.intermine.org under the LGPL license.

Contact: g.micklem@gen.cam.ac.uk

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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InterMine system architecture
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