Bioinformatics Vol. 16 no. 3 2000
Pages 288-289
© 2000 Oxford University Press
Storing biological sequence databases in relational form
1 Department of Bioinformatics, Merck &
Co., Inc., WP42-300, West Point, PA 19486, USA
2 Department of Bioinformatics, Merck &
Co., Inc., RY80-A1, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
Received on July 27, 1999
; revised on October 25, 1999
; accepted on October 25, 1999
Summary: We have created a set of applications using Perl and Java in combination with XML technology to install biological sequence databases into an Oracle RDBMS. An easy-to-use interface using Java has been created for database query and other tools developed to integrate with our in-house bioinformatics applications.
Availability: The database schema, DTD file, and source codes are available from the authors via email.
Contact: guochun_ xie{at}merck.com