Integrating information: DistilBio perspective

All scientists agree that there is a lot of information and data that is being generated and that it takes a significant amount of time to integrate that information. Trying to draw conclusions from that and make new discoveries is quite another matter.

A company called “DistilBio” has done a wonderful job of integrating those databases and presenting the information as one web page that makes it possible to look at the relationships. Though the interface is not very intuitive, it does enable the user to look at various databases rapidly and try to find a common query linking them together. Behind the scenes, there appears to be a great lookup of databases that are presented very uniformly in a single easy to see interface.

It is incredible to see how much information can be quickly condensed into a single page and that can make sense. According to the website, they look up 32 databases, present 53 biological concepts and highlight nearly 300 unique relationships.

Look at the demo below and try it out.

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