DataFoundry Data Warehousing and Integration for Scientific Data Management DataFoundry project is performing leading edge data warehousing research within the complex and semantically rich domain of molecular genetics. Our efforts are focused on reducing the time and effort required to integrate new sources into an existing warehouse, and to adapt to changes in previously integrated sources.
Research plays a vital role in in scaling warehousing approaches to real domains.
Practical prototype implementations play an equally important role, for they allow one to exercise design decisions, and provide a testbed that stimulates both the warehouse researcher and the application-oriented scientist to work towards more functional and robust approaches. DataFoundry takes new research methods and embeds them in practical working prototypes. While these prototypes are, by nature, domain specific, the associated research and overall architecture is applicable to other scientific data-driven application areas.