<s>
BioMart	B-Application
is	O
a	O
community-driven	O
project	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
single	O
point	O
of	O
access	O
to	O
distributed	O
research	B-General_Concept
data	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
BioMart	B-Application
project	O
contributes	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
and	O
data	O
services	O
to	O
the	O
international	O
scientific	O
community	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
the	O
BioMart	B-Application
software	O
is	O
primarily	O
used	O
by	O
the	O
biomedical	O
research	O
community	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
designed	O
in	O
such	O
a	O
way	O
that	O
any	O
type	O
of	O
data	O
can	O
be	O
incorporated	O
into	O
the	O
BioMart	B-Application
framework	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
BioMart	B-Application
project	O
originated	O
at	O
the	O
European	O
Bioinformatics	O
Institute	O
as	O
a	O
data	O
management	O
solution	O
for	O
the	O
Human	O
Genome	O
Project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
then	O
,	O
BioMart	B-Application
has	O
grown	O
to	O
become	O
a	O
multi-institute	O
collaboration	O
involving	O
various	O
database	O
projects	O
on	O
five	O
continents	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioMart	B-Application
is	O
a	O
freely	O
available	O
,	O
open-source	B-Application
,	O
federated	B-General_Concept
database	I-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
that	O
provides	O
unified	O
access	O
to	O
disparate	O
,	O
geographically	O
distributed	O
data	O
sources	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioMart	B-Application
allows	O
databases	O
hosted	O
on	O
different	O
servers	B-Application
to	O
be	O
presented	O
seamlessly	O
to	O
users	O
,	O
facilitating	O
collaborative	O
projects	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioMart	B-Application
contains	O
several	O
levels	O
of	O
query	B-Language
optimization	I-Language
to	O
efficiently	O
manage	O
large	O
data	O
sets	O
,	O
and	O
offers	O
a	O
diverse	O
selection	O
of	O
graphical	B-Application
user	I-Application
interfaces	I-Application
and	O
application	B-Application
programming	I-Application
interfaces	I-Application
to	O
allow	O
queries	O
to	O
be	O
performed	O
in	O
whatever	O
manner	O
is	O
most	O
convenient	O
for	O
the	O
user	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioMart	B-Application
's	O
capabilities	O
are	O
extended	O
by	O
integration	O
with	O
several	O
widely	O
used	O
software	O
packages	O
such	O
as	O
Bioconductor	B-Application
,	O
Galaxy	B-Application
,	O
Cytoscape	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Taverna	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
around	O
40	O
BioMart	B-Application
data	O
sources	O
including	O
the	O
Atlas	O
of	O
UTR	O
Regulatory	O
Activity	O
(	O
AURA	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
COSMIC	O
cancer	O
database	O
,	O
Ensembl	O
Genomes	O
,	O
HapMap	O
,	O
InterPro	O
,	O
Mouse	O
Genome	O
Informatics	O
(	O
MGI	O
)	O
,	O
Rfam	O
and	O
UniProt	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
BioMart	B-Application
Central	O
Portal	O
was	O
established	O
to	O
provide	O
a	O
convenient	O
single	O
point	O
of	O
access	O
to	O
this	O
growing	O
pool	O
of	O
data	O
sources	O
.	O
</s>
