Figure 1.
Shows popular data integration approaches, with examples, for resources that have implemented these approaches.
Table 1.
Some of the major successful and recognized examples of data integration.
Figure 2.
Schema of the four major roles in data integration in a federated system.
Figure 3.
Example of a genome reference source representing a database including a list of genome features.
Figure 4.
Example of a genome reference source representing a database including a list of nucleotide sequences.
Figure 5.
Example of the card for the “Registry” after genome sources have been registered.
Figure 6.
Example of the graphical representation someone playing the “Client” role could come up with.
Figure 7.
Game card used to play the role of the “User” including a selection of genome queries.
Figure 8.
Example of a DAS genome client (Dalliance) displaying positional annotations from several sources (e.g., Ensembl, HGNC, Agilent probesets, and Toronto CNVs) [33].