Sorry about previous crossposts. On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Michael Maibaum wrote: > > 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. As far as I heard Uniprot is only 'going to be' RDB, as definate schemas have not yet been finalised - not that I would be likely to find out very quickly :) Same goes for BIND, they plan to use RDB, but not in a conventional way (so far as I understand). > > >