GenIRL was funded in 2003 by a grant of €134,600 from Enterprise Ireland under the Basic Research Grants Scheme, project number SC-2003-0047-Y. The project began in October 2003, and will run until March 2007.
In studying biological function and evolution, molecular biologists are creating huge genomic databases. These contain biological data, such as genes and proteins, and textual data such as papers and reports. A complex web of relationships exists between biological objects (e.g. sequence similarity, regulatory networks), between textual objects (e.g. citations, textual similarity), and between domains (e.g. annotations). In this project, we will study links-based methods for retrieval from genomic databases, and the storage and indexing methods necessary to support such retrieval. We aim to develop techniques that will help molecular biologists discover relationships that they may not otherwise have recognised.
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