Paper Info
Title
The NIF LinkOut broker: a web resource to facilitate federated data integration using NCBI identifiers.
Abstract
This paper describes the NIF LinkOut Broker (NLB) that has been built as part of the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) project. The NLB is designed to coordinate the assembly of links to neuroscience information items (e.g., experimental data, knowledge bases, and software tools) that are (1) accessible via the Web, and (2) related to entries in the National Center for Biotechnology Information's (NCBI's) Entrez system. The NLB collects these links from each resource and passes them to the NCBI which incorporates them into its Entrez LinkOut service. In this way, an Entrez user looking at a specific Entrez entry can LinkOut directly to related neuroscience information. The information stored in the NLB can also be utilized in other ways. A second approach, which is operational on a pilot basis, is for the NLB Web server to create dynamically its own Web page of LinkOut links for each NCBI identifier in the NLB database. This approach can allow other resources (in addition to the NCBI Entrez) to LinkOut to related neuroscience information. The paper describes the current NLB system and discusses certain design issues that arose during its implementation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/s12021-008-9025-y
Neuroinformatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
data integration.entrez linkout.gateway. guid.neurodatabases.pubmed,internet,web pages,neuroscience information framework,neurosciences,computational biology,data integrity,knowledge base
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1559-0089
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.09
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luis Marenco113711.58
Giorgio A. Ascoli262580.29
Maryann E. Martone353470.57
G M Shepherd450873.75
P L Miller544593.86