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Nucleic Acids Research 2005 33(Database Issue):D3-D4; doi:10.1093/nar/gki134
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2005, Vol. 33, Database issue D3-D4
© 2005, the authors
Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 33, Database issue © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved

Editorial

Dov Greenbaum, Andrew Smith and Mark Gerstein

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Impediments to database interoperation: legal issues and security concerns

The significant growth of this annual over the past decade is testament to the importance of databases to scientific research in general and biomedical sciences in particular. In fact, the centrality of databases within our society at large is demonstrated by the continued debate in Congress regarding the legal protection of databases and the information they contain.

Productive utilization of databases requires interoperability: that is, the precise yet flexible interrelating of information from one database to another. There are, at present, two major impediments to achieving wide-scale interoperability: the state of database protection legislation and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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