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NIF Data Federation and Concept Mapping Tool

Yueling LINIF Hackathon 2013

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Overview• Provides the ability to drill down into individually

hosted databases and data sets and return relevant content

• Register your database with NIF, please email curation@neuinfo.org

• NIF's full listing of federated data http://neurolex.org/wiki/Category:Resource:NIF_Data_Federation

• Indexing 232 databases and including 358,230,304 single records

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Concept Mapping Tool• Developed to manage Data Federation resources• Used for – Setting up the table and view– Setting up the column definitions and mapping– Setting up the database column contents to be exported to

Google Refine for the mapping of the concepts – Providing back-end support services

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Curator guideline

• https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/NIF/Resources+and+Curation#ResourcesandCuration-NIFDataFederationResource(Deeplyintegratedresources

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NIF integrated virtual databases• Integrated related data from multiple databases and

combines them into one view for easier browsing• NIF Integrated Animals• NIF Integrated BGE• NIF Integrated Cell Lines• NIF Integrated CT• NIF Integrated Disease• NIF integrated GDI• NIF Integrated NSC• NIF Integrated Podcast • NIF Integrated Software • NIF Integrated Video • NIFBlogs/NIFJobs/NIFNews