[Biodevelopers] RDBMS and Bioinformatics

[Dan Bolser]

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

> 
> I'm not sure what distinguishes one database as being better for
> bioinformatics as a whole; it depends an awful lot on what you're
> doing...
> 
> --titus
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