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IBM Research - Almaden
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Garlic
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Businesses today rely on large collections of data stored in diverse systems with differing
capabilities. Many of the "mission-critical" tasks these customers do depend on integrating
data from several sources. For example, to find new drugs, pharmaceutical companies must
combine information on test results with information on chemical structures and on existing
patents. Often the data sources to be integrated include a broad range of sources, such as
CAD/CAM systems, text search engines, molecular structure databases, or customer-specific
repositories.
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Garlic is an IBM prototype that allows integration of diverse sources such as the above, and allows
new sources to be easily added to an existing installation. Garlic offers the ability to interrelate
data from multiple sources with a broad range of querying capabilities, in a single, cross-source
query. A significant focus of the project is the provision of support for data sources that provide
type-specific indexing and query capabilities, such as text search, or search by molecular structure.
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