In Latin America, as happens with many developing countries, there are people now using (or changing to) DB2 because IBM Scholars Program offers the package free for academics. Still, many people uses mysql. Prof.W.Israel Barrantes Lab.Bioquimica y Biol.Molecular UNFV c/San Marcos 351 Pueblo Libre Lima, L21. PERU. Tlf.+51 1 261 2818 Emails: israelbarrantes at universia.edu.pe [UNFV] wbarrant at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk [RFCGR] Lectures Website is http://www.lbbm.tk Message: 8 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:49:03 -0500 (EST) From: Hong Zhang <hzhang at research.dfci.harvard.edu> To: bioclusters at bioinformatics.org Cc: biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org Subject: [Biodevelopers] Re: [Bioclusters] RDBMS and Bioinformatics Reply-To: biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org Most people may not choose ORACLE due to its price. On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Dr. Hari Koduvely 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? > > Regards > -Hari > > ===== > 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! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > -- Hong Zhang, MIS Bioinformatics Analyst Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School 44 Binney St, D1510A Boston MA 02115 Email: hong.zhang at research.dfci.harvard.edu Phone: 617-632-3824 Fax: 617-632-3351