Automating Data Acquisition into Ontologies from Pharmacogenetics Relational Data Sources Using Declarative Object Definitions and XML.

eous information sources in order make the diversity ofpharmacogenetics data amenable to computational analysis.1 Introduction1.1 Pharmacogenetics and the need to connect diverse dataConnecting genotype and phenotype data is the quest of pharmacogenetics---adiscipline that seeks to understand how inherited genetic differences among peopleinfluence their response to drugs. Discovering important relationships betweengenes and drugs could lead to personalized medicine, where drug...