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Abstract --- Christophe Roos, MediCel Ltd., FinlandBiological data integration — get into the 'do' mode System level information can now be collected by measuring almost any component of a biological organism. The multiple fields of 'omics' have proven this for some years already. To some extent this opportunity has reversed the scientific process whereby formerly an experiment was designed to answer a question while now, the questions tend to come after the measurements have been made. As unprecedented amounts of data are produced by the use of high throughput technologies, the intellectual process of making sense out of the data is quite a challenge. Data integration on the conceptual level has quite some time been recognised as a key issue carrying huge benefits. Nevertheless, integration and the ensuing process of knowledge extraction are still hampered by a lack of standardised representation of the data in use. A more clear distinction between component data, system data and state data also needs to be established. In this presentation, the crucial and tight interplay between information technology and biology is set as the requirement sine qua non for getting into the 'do integration' mode. |