Introduction

The DaTo, comprised of 21667 bioinformatics tools and databases, is currently the most comprehensive database with high reliability and accuracy. DaTo downloads all pubmed articles which provide a http url in their abstract section. Then, their raw information such as names and description is computationally mined and the information is checked and curated record by record manually. So you can have high confidence on this. DaTo features a user-friendly query interface, providing rich annotation of the records with much details such as the status, the location and the country of the url. A graphical interaction network browser has also been integrated into the DaTo web interface to facilitate mining of the relationship between the tools and databases based on the Mesh term similarity.

Four features

1. The accurate and abundant DaTo records of databases and tools

DaTo aims to be the most comprehensive repository of biology-relateddatabases and tools extracted from PubMed. Every pubmed article which contains a url in its abstract section is downloaded and their names and urls are computationally extracted. Especially the details such as the name, url etc. are checked and corrected manually. Therefore, the database is capable to provide abundant as well as accurate records of databases and tools.

2. DaTo's characteristic network of databases and tools

To enable For an effective result extraction from the huge amount of data and its interpretation , special approaches are requiredof results the user want to get from the huge amounts of data. Therefore, we introduce It will be very useful and necessary if we knew the other DBs and tools, so we innovationally invent the Mesh Term Similarity network which enables the to identificatesimilarity identification the interactions among the different DBsdatabases and Ttools. The relationship network can be easily accessed and interactively processed interactively.

3. The detailed mined information and friendly inteactive interface for comment

Do you want to know the other peoples' comments and publish opinions on your interested web applications? DaTo provides these facilities and in the future you can also use DaTo as an international community which will unite all database and tool users with the same interest and concern.

4. The interactive Statistics

DaTo is a repository which enables the exploration of its entries on different dimensions. It enables the visualization the geographical distribution of all databases and tools. It provides statistics, such as the top 10 countries and journals. This is an important step towards a knowledge base for all biology-related databases and tools.

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