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the BioPAX format, defining the syntax of data representation according to
definitions and relations represented in the ontology. BioCyc [4], EcoCyc [11]
and HumanCyc [18] support both SBML and BioPAX formats.
Figure 6 summarizes the described data formats.
2.6 The On-Line Synthetic Description
We remark that the main goal of our investigation has been that of screening
a significant subset of the available on-line biological resources, in order to
individuate some common directions of analysis, at least for a sub-category of
them (i.e., the genomic databases). Thus, as one of the main results of such
an analysis, we provide a synthetic description of each of the 74 analyzed
databases according to the considered criteria. All such synthetic descriptions
are freely available at http://siloe.deis.unical.it/biodbSurvey/.
Fig. 7. An example of the database synthetic descriptions available at
http://siloe.deis.unical.it/biodbSurvey/