GWAS Central collates association data and study metadata from many disparate sources whose data are available in different formats and to differing degrees of detail.
Bioinformatics is quickly becoming the central core that integrates the many disparate bodies of data, scientific knowledge and computational infrastructure from fields as diverse as genetics, structural biology, medical and animal models of disease, imaging, engineering, etc.
Tan et al are to be congratulated for achieving the difficult task of synthesizing the many disparate pieces of data on the subject of exchange transfusion (ET) [ 1].
Such a scheme allows the synthesis of many of the disparate data that have been previously enumerated between the different neurotransmission systems.
When Ellison said, " Splunk has no real entity model and leaves data in many disparate vendor silos," Splunk responded, "Splunk turns data into answers, applying schema on read to give structure to the data when you ask the question and not force entities when you write it (presumably to an Oracle database which is… again… convenient)," they wrote.
Our assessments are based on many diverse publications and disparate data concerning the effects of flooding on species richness, ecophysiology and distribution of tropical trees.
We designed our algorithm to be capable of utilizing many disparate sources of mutational data, including single-nucleotide polymorphisms, copy-number alterations, and epigenomic modifications.
"We caveat this data – we have been for decades, cautioning individuals and organizations from drawing conclusions from it, because we recognize it is incomplete data, it is disparate data that leaves too many holes and gaps," Morris said.
Given that ITS2 data already exist for so many disparate groups of organisms, there is little doubt that this protocol could be easily extended to other members of the domain Eukarya.
However, many felt uncomfortable with the fact that their often disparate data had now been combined into a single pot.
