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==Next Generation Data Integration (for the Life Sciences)==
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    Next Generation Data Integration (for the Life Sciences)
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                                                                   Ulf Leser
                                                      Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
                                                      Institute for Computer Science
                                                   leser@informatik.hu-berlin.de


ABSTRACT
Ever since the advent of high-throughput biology (e.g., the
Human Genome Project), integrating the large number of
diverse biological data sets has been considered as one of
the most important tasks for advancement in the biolog-
ical sciences. The life sciences also served as a blueprint
for complex integration tasks in the CS community, due to
the availability of a large number of highly heterogeneous
sources and the urgent integration needs. Whereas the early
days of research in this area were dominated by virtual inte-
gration, the currently most successful architecture uses ma-
terialization. Systems are built using ad-hoc techniques and
a large amount of scripting. However, recent years have
seen a shift in the understanding of what a ”data integra-
tion system” actually should do, revitalizing research in this
direction. In this tutorial, we review the past and current
state of data integration (exemplified by the Life Sciences)
and discuss recent trends in detail, which all pose challenges
for the database community.




About the Author
Ulf Leser obtained a Diploma in Computer Science at the
Technische Universität München in 1995. He then worked as
database developer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molec-
ular Genetics before starting his PhD with the Graduate
School for ”Distributed Information Systems” in Berlin. Since
2002 he is a professor for Knowledge Management in Bioin-
formatics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.




Copyright c by the paper’s authors. Copying permitted only
for private and academic purposes.
In: G. Specht, H. Gamper, F. Klan (eds.): Proceedings of the 26th GI-
Workshop on Foundations of Databases (Grundlagen von Datenbanken),
21.10.2014 - 24.10.2014, Bozen, Italy, published at http://ceur-ws.org.

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