Background: With the completion of the Human Genome Project and recent advancements in mutation detection technologies, the volume of data available on genetic variations has rise...
Background: Peptides are important molecules with diverse biological functions and biomedical uses. To date, there does not exist a single, searchable archive for peptide sequence...
Timur Shtatland, Daniel Guettler, Misha Kossodo, M...
Background: In the last five years large online resources of human variability have appeared, notably HapMap, Perlegen and the CEPH foundation. These databases of genotypes with p...
Jorge Amigo, Antonio Salas, Christopher Phillips, ...
Background: The exponential growth of research in molecular biology has brought concomitant proliferation of databases for stocking its findings. A variety of protein sequence dat...
Background: It is necessary to analyze microarray experiments together with biological information to make better biological inferences. We investigate the adequacy of current bio...
Background: In computer science, database systems are based on the relational model founded by Edgar Codd in 1970. On the other hand, in the area of biology the word 'databas...
A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifi...
Geographic information systems use databases to map keywords to places. These databases are currently most often created by using a top-down approach based on the geographic defini...
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...