Hi Guenther, I agree to some extent to what you said. I was trying to build a database of all the available information on Stress Response of Cells but I realized that even for single cell organisms like Yeast, it is so complex that it is not easy to fit into a standard RDBMS format. One has to first sit with a biologist to understand all the complexities to come up with a decent datamodel which then can be converted into some physical database. -Hari --- thorsten.ries at tudor.lu wrote: > Hello Guenther, > > > Hi Hari, > > > > What kind of warehousing are you thinking of? I > would be very interested > to= > > =20 > > discuss this topic since we made lots of > experience in this field using > Pos= > > tgres. > > What kind of warehouse were you testing and what is > your experience with > PostgreSQL? > > > > I think one of the biggest challenges in this > field is not the use of > RDBMS > > but the development AND maintenance of a proper > data model. Without a=20 > > decent model the database is nothing but a fancy > file system (in extreme > wo= > > rds). > > That's exactly my opinion too! It less than optimal > to adapt the special > properties of biological data to a RDBMS. Instead a > global view will be > necessary to develop a new kind of a data model > combined with an adapted > Information Retrieval or Data mining, Storage > layer,... to fulfil the > biological needs. > > Do you have already an idea, where to go? > > Regards, > > Thorsten > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers ===== Dr. Hari Koduvely, Ph.D. Research Scientist Unilever Research India 64 Main Road, Whitefield Bangalore 560066, INDIA Ph:+91 80 5139 5629 (Office) +91 80 5221790 (Res) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash