Hi all, many thanks for your overwelhming responses to my simple question. I am trying to get into data warehousing also (from just data analysis) and I was thinking of what to learn for datawarehousing in Bioinformatics. That is why I posed this question..... Regds -Hari --- Dan Bolser <dmb@mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Titus Brown wrote: > > > -> 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? > > > > 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. > > > > I don't know of a project using Oracle but there > must be some out there. > > MSD > > > > > I'm not sure what distinguishes one database as > being better for > > bioinformatics as a whole; it depends an awful lot > on what you're > > doing... > > > > --titus > > _______________________________________________ > > Biodevelopers mailing list > > Biodevelopers@bioinformatics.org > > > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - > Bioclusters@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters ===== Dr. Hari Koduvely, Ph.D. Research Scientist Unilever Research India 64 Main Road, Whitefield Bangalore 560066, INDIA Ph:+91 80 5139 5629 (Office) +91 80 5221790 (Res) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com