DISCO: Extensible Web resource DISCOvery, registration and interoperation framework
DISCO is an information integration approach designed to facilitate interoperation among Internet resources. It consists of a set of tools and services that allows resource providers who maintain information to share it with automated systems such as NIF. NIF is then able to "harvest" the information and keep those sets of information up-to-date.
<span class="nifTabHeader"> The <a class="external" target="_blank" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy">NCBI Taxonomy Database</a> is a classification and nomenclature of all organisms that are represented in the public genetic sequence databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence.<span class="nifTabHeaderImage"><a target="_blank" href="../../tutorials/ncbi/ncbi_tutorial.shtm"><img src="../../images/tutorials_4848.gif" alt="Tutorial" title="Show me a tutorial" height="50" width="42"></a></span></span>
