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INTEGRATED DATA REFINING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM
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MOTIVATION
We purpose a Federated Search Engine to improve the productivity of search in BioInformatics Department. Bio is one of the leading departments with such enormous and scattered information today that it becomes very difficult for a layman (or for the researchers) to identify and access right information at right time. Increasing demand of information services and resource access of bioinformatics realises the single platform access of information of the subject. Thus we will make an effort to manifest the information (available via many reliable resources) in a meaningful manner.
Popular search engines can many a times be proved ineffective as they rank websites on the basis of their popularity rather than their relevance. Moreover they do not differentiate between reliable and unreliable websites.
LITERATURE SURVEY
E-Z Search
In spring 2007, several teams of students in John Newbold’s class in strategic marketing management at Sam Houston State University (SHSU) were given the assignment of producing a marketing plan for the university’s Newton Gresham Library. Some of the teams surveyed students on campus, asking how the library could better market its online resources, while other teams relied on their own preferences and suggestions.The opinions from the teams and survey respondents showed a desire for a more Google-like approach to searching library resources; students were accustomed to using Google and other Internet search engines to search once and retrieve a single, simple list of results from many websites, ranked by relevancy. That familiarity created the expectation that the library should provide a similar capability for quick, convenient academic research. In response to this finding, the Newton Gresham Library researched metasearch options and finally implemented the federated search product WebFeat, which was marketed on the library’s website under the name E-Z Search.