Data Integration in the Life Sciences - 13th International Conference, DILS 2018, Hannover, Germany, November 20-21, 2018, Proceedings

e-DBI is a database application that allows the scientists to seamlessly connect to several of multi-format data sources. It facilitates the navigation and exploration of scientific data sources with potential for data integration. In a typical integration scenario, the scientists need to perform several activities and tasks to gather and collect all the information from the different data sources. With e-DBI, however, these tasks are performed in a single-access point, while the integration is carried out by defining a virtual database based on the collected data sources. Furthermore, the e-DBI tool uses a relational backend, enabling customizations for the location and format of the virtual database.