CardioVINEdb: a data warehouse approach for integration of life science data in cardiovascular diseases

Abstract

One of the major challenges in bioinfomatics is to integrate and manage data from different sources as well as experimental microarray data and present them in a user-friendly format. Therefore, we present CardioVINEdb, a data warehouse approach developed to integrate and explore life science data. The data warehouse architecture provides a platform-independent web interface that can be used with any common web browser. A monitor component controls and updates the data from the different sources to guarantee up-to-dateness. In addition, the system provides a visualization component for interactive graphical exploration of the integrated data based on networks of biological objects.