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New Techniques For Improving Biological Data Quality Through Information Integration, Katherine Grace Herbert

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As databases become more pervasive through the biological sciences, various data quality concerns are emerging. Biological databases tend to develop data quality issues regarding data legacy, data uniformity and data duplication. Due to the nature of this data, each of these problems is non-trivial and can cause many problems for the database. For biological data to be corrected and standardized, methods and frameworks must be developed to handle both structural and traditional data.

The BIG-AJAX framework has been developed for solving these problems through both data cleaning and data integration. This framework exploits declarative data cleaning and exploratory data mining …