Yearbook of Medical Informatics, Table of Contents Yearb Med Inform 2008; 17(01): 91-101DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1638588 Original Article Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart Accessing and Integrating Data and Knowledge for Biomedical Research A. Burgun 1 EA 3888, IFR 140, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Rennes I, 35033 Rennes, France , O. Bodenreider 2 National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA › Author Affiliations Recommend Article Abstract Full Text PDF Download Keywords KeywordsMedical Informatics - bioinformatics - databases - distributed knowledge bases References References 1 Frey LJ, Maojo V, Mitchell JA. Bioinformatics linkage of heterogeneous clinical and genomic information in support of personalized medicine. Methods Inf Med 2007; 46 (Suppl. 01) 98-105. 2 Golub TR. Genomics: global views of leukaemia. Nature 2007; Apr 12; 446 (7137): 739-40. 3 Staudt LM, Dave S. The biology of human lymphoid malignancies revealed by gene expression profiling. 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