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.
Topics
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.
DOI: 10.1101/768077
Links
Repository
https://github.com/joiningdata/databio/