Data Integration in the Life Sciences [electronic resource] : First International Workshop, DILS 2004, Leipzig, Germany, March 25-26, 2004. Proceedings / edited by Erhard Rahm.

Scientific and Clinical Workflows -- An Ontology-Driven Framework for Data Transformation in Scientific Workflows -- PROVA: Rule-Based Java-Scripting for a Bioinformatics Semantic Web -- Process Based Data Logistics: a Solution for Clinical Integration Problems -- Ontologies and Taxonomies -- Domain-Specific Concepts and Ontological Reduction within a Data Dictionary Framework -- A Universal Character Model and Ontology of Defined Terms for Taxonomic Description -- On the Application of Formal Principles to Life Science Data: a Case Study in the Gene Ontology -- Indexing and Clustering -- Index-Driven XML Data Integration to Support Functional Genomics -- Heterogeneous Data Integration with the Consensus Clustering Formalism -- Integration Tools and Systems -- LinkSuiteTM: Formally Robust Ontology-Based Data and Information Integration -- BioDataServer: an Applied Molecular Biological Data Integration Service -- Columba: Multidimensional Data Integration of Protein Annotations -- Integration Techniques -- On the Integration of a Large Number of Life Science Web Databases -- Efficient Techniques to Explore and Rank Paths in Life Science Data Sources -- Links and Paths through Life Sciences Data Sources -- Pathway and Protein Interaction Data: from XML to FDM Database.