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. -- Michael Maibaum internet: mike@maibaum.org | http://mike.maibaum.org voice: [m] 07958 604025 |