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Words
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Description
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| Database
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A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. Also called data bank. |
| Data Mining
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The ability to query very large databases in order to satisfy a hypothesis ("top-down" data mining); or to interrogate a database in order to generate new hypotheses based on rigorous statistical correlations ("bottom-up" data mining). |
| Data Processing
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Data processing is defined as the systematic performance of operations upon data such as handling, merging, sorting, and computing. The semantic content of the original data should not be changed, but the semantic content of the processed data may be changed. |
| Data Warehouses
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Vast arrays of heterogeneous (biological) data, stored within a single logical data repository, that are accessible to different querying and manipulation methods. |
| Data type
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A description of a variable defined by two properties: a domain, which is the set of values that belong to that type, and a set of operations, which defines the behavior of that type. |
| Domain (protein):
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A region of special biological interest within a single protein sequence. However, a domain may also be defined as a region within the three-dimensional structure of a protein that may encompass regions of several distinct protein sequences that accomplishes a specific function. A domain class is a group of domains that share a common set of well-defined properties or characteristics. |
