Re: RDBMS and Bioinformatics

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> Same goes for BIND, they plan to use RDB, but not in a conventional way
> (so far as I understand).
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BIND (http://bind.ca) stores bind-objects based on ASN.1 specification
(ftp://ftp.blueprint.org/pub/BIND/spec/, also available as XML DTD and
Schema), as ASN.1/XML in BLOB fields in the database table.  BIND makes use
of field-specific indexing to be able to search for any particular object or
set of objects that match the search criteria.  The relational aspect is
really more for curatorial work and tracking, afaik...

Michel Dumontier
PhD Candidate
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital
Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5G1X5
[email protected]
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