Searching the World-Wide-Web using nucleotide and peptide sequences : Nature Precedings we describe the theory and implementation of a web-based front-end for a search engine, like Google, which accepts sequence fragments and interactively retrieves a collection of highly relevant links and documents, in real-time. e.g. flat files like patent records, privately hosted sequence documents and regular databases.
When Everyone Can Mine Your Data - Forbes.com Temmingh's software scans open data repositories on the Web and allows users to match the results with their own data. (He calls this approach "open-source intelligence.") The data are then graphically depicted. The commercial version of Maltego lets users save these visualizations in popular data formats like XML so the information can be used by other programs.