Biomedical Data Types, Sources, Content, and Retrieval

Biological data is heterogeneous, multi-modal as well as multi-view in nature often generated from complex biotechnical and analytical experiments. With the technological advancements, data generation, curation, update, and sharing has been accelerated and has become a routine process. Eventually, standalone and integrated tool and database development are also in progress for systematic organization and analysis of  this big data in terms of its content, accuracy and consistency to extract the meaningful information explaining complex biological phenomena. Doing so, the obvious first step is to know the biological data types, list the resources, and explore its content followed by its retrieval. This chapter concisely summarized these four aspects of different types of biomedical data.