Re: RDBMS and Bioinformatics

Sorry about previous crossposts.

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Michael Maibaum wrote:

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> On Mar 15, 2004, at 18:18, Dan Bolser wrote:
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> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Titus Brown wrote:
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> >> -> Hi, I would like to know if RDBMS (Relational Data
> >> -> Base Management Systems) is extensively used in
> >> -> Bioinformatics Data Bases. If it indeed true, what is
> >> -> the most suited RDBMS, Oracle?
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> >> I believe that NCBI uses SQLserver for some things, and MySQL has
> >> been used by several of the public projects (ENSEMBL, for one).
> >> I use PostgreSQL because of it's support for an object/relational
> >> data model.
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> >> I don't know of a project using Oracle but there must be some out 
> >> there.
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> > MSD
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> another big one is InterPro, and I *think* UniProt and SwissProt but 
> I'm not certain exactly what each of those use it for.

As far as I heard Uniprot is only 'going to be' RDB, as definate schemas
have not yet been finalised - not that I would be likely to find out very
quickly :)

Same goes for BIND, they plan to use RDB, but not in a conventional way
(so far as I understand).


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