Datab.io

Datab.io automates parsing, identifier detection, and cross-database translation of gene-oriented datasets to enable integration and interpretation for multi-omics research.


Key Features:

  • Automated data parsing and identifier detection: Automatically parses gene-oriented datasets and detects gene identifiers present within them.
  • Identifier translation and integration: Maps and translates gene identifiers across databases using a comprehensive data warehouse containing 137 million identifiers.
  • FAIR data principles compliance: Produces annotations aligned with findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) principles to improve discoverability and linkage to existing resources.
  • Real-time data structures: Employs fast real-time data structures for efficient processing and manipulation of large datasets.
  • Automated provenance heuristics: Applies automated heuristics to describe data provenance.

Scientific Applications:

  • Multi-omics data integration: Integrates diverse sequencing and high-throughput datasets for combined analysis across -omics domains.
  • Translational medicine and life sciences research: Facilitates linking prior work across fields to support translational and interdisciplinary studies.
  • Provenance and reproducibility annotation: Provides automated provenance descriptions to aid reproducible analyses and data interpretation.

Methodology:

Automated parsing and identifier detection, identifier mapping using a 137-million-identifier data warehouse, use of fast real-time data structures for processing, and automated heuristics for provenance description.

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Details

Tool Type:
web application
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Added:
11/14/2019
Last Updated:
12/17/2020

Operations

Publications

Reid RW, Ferrier JW, Jay JJ. Automated gene data integration with Databio. BMC Research Notes. 2020;13(1). doi:10.1186/s13104-020-05038-w. PMID:32238171. PMCID:PMC7110638.

Reid RW, Ferrier JW, Jay JJ. Automated Gene Data Integration with Databio. Unknown Journal. 2019. doi:10.1101/768077.

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