Approach to Protein Structure Data Extraction and Automatic Updating

The quickly increasing and updating of the protein structure data provides necessary data resources to biological researchers. The use of these data sources needs data integration that is usually time-cost. The data integration should provide a unified data format and deal with synchronization issue. This paper describes an approach for the integration of given protein structure data and its local database synchronization with the remote database. This approach is able to extract web data based on XML, and update the local data according to the remote database. The experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.