Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on June 28, 2005
Bioinformatics 2005 21(16):3443-3444; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti557
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PhD: a web database application for phenotype data management
1Laboratory of Molecular and Statistical Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University Changsha, Hunan 410081, People's Republic of China
2Seattle Biomedical Research Institute 307 Westlake Avenue N, Suite 500, Seattle, WA 98109-5219, USA
3Osteoporosis Research Center, Creighton University Medical Center Omaha, NE 68131, USA
4The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Institute of Molecular Genetics, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 710049, People's Republic of China
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Summary: A database application has been developed for phenotype data management employing the Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) model. By applying the EAV model, this application allows users to manage arbitrary phenotypes and customize data entry forms; therefore, it is suitable for different and multi-center projects.
Availability: http://apps.sbri.org/gpdb (Beta version).
Contacts: Jinlong.Li{at}sbri.org
Supplementary information: http://apps.sbri.org/gpdb/supp.htm
Received on May 19, 2005; revised on June 22, 2005; accepted on June 27, 2005