A Study for link method among heterogeneous contents by Genbank reference field analysis

With the recent, rapid development of molecular biology and the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2001, a vast amount of genetic information has been uncovered worldwide. As information on gene sequences is not only diverse but also extremely huge in volume, high-performance computer and information technology techniques are required to build and analyze gene sequence databases. This has given rise to the discipline of bioinformatics, a field of research where computers are utilized to collect, to manage, to save, to evaluate, and to analyze biological data. In line with such continued development in bioinformatics, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) has built an infrastructure for the biological information, based on the information technology, and provided the information for researchers of bioscience. This paper analyzes the reference fields of Genbank; the most frequently used gene database by the global researchers among the life information databases, and proposes the interface method to NDSL (http://NDSL.kr) which is the science and technology information integrated service provided by KISTI. For these, followings are made; 1) Genbank data are collected from NCBI FTP site; 2) The database is rebuilt by separating Genbank text files into the basic gene data and the reference data; 3) New tables are generated through extracting the paper information and patent information from Genbank reference fields; 4) Interfaces to the paper database (http://scholar.ndsl.kr) and the patent database (http://patent.ndsl.kr) operated by KISTI are suggested.