[Biodevelopers] RDBMS and Bioinformatics

[Michael Maibaum]

On Mar 15, 2004, at 18:18, Dan Bolser 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

another big one is InterPro, and I *think* UniProt and SwissProt but 
I'm not certain exactly what each of those use it for.


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