In a similar manner, the pedagogical methods and applications incorporated into Make to Learn Invention Kits draw upon knowledge that spans many disparate disciplines distributed across the Make to Learn network of collaborators.
BioMart is a freely available, open source, federated database system that provides a unified access to disparate, geographically distributed data sources.
Data federation makes it possible to organize multiple, disparate and distributed database systems into what appears to be a single integrated virtual database.
Ease of integrating an ensemble of disparate and distributed molecular pathway models, each owned by different authors is therefore critical to building large-scale models such as the whole cell.
Decision-making is dependent upon up-to-date information about distributed and disparate plant, coupled with knowledge of sensitive non-technical issues.
In other words, they need to work effectively across disparate networks, dispersed infrastructures, distributed geographical locations, and heterogeneous computing environments, as well as to be capable of operating in highly scalable and dynamic settings, to reiterate.
Translational medicine thus requires appropriate technologies for the interpretation of distributed and disparate data resources, and it is easy to conceive that such a large scale endeavor will require a versatile infrastructure that preserves data semantics at all integration levels.
This workflow differs from that in a traditional community setting in which specimens are commonly distributed to disparate laboratories for analysis and the clinician performs the determination of tests and integrates the results from each laboratory report.
Since RDF data may be distributed over disparate data sources (including data stores exporting RDF from non-RDF relational databases), SPARQL has to retrieve data from all these resources.
