BioWarehouse: a bioinformatics database warehouse toolkit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This article addresses the problem of interoperation of heterogeneous bioinformatics databases.

Results

We introduce BioWarehouse, an open source toolkit for constructing bioinformatics database warehouses using the MySQL and Oracle relational database managers. BioWarehouse integrates its component databases into a common representational framework within a single database management system, thus enabling multi-database queries using the Structured Query Language (SQL) but also facilitating a variety of database integration tasks such as comparative analysis and data mining. BioWarehouse currently supports the integration of a pathway-centric set of databases including ENZYME, KEGG, and BioCyc, and in addition the UniProt, GenBank, NCBI Taxonomy, and CMR database

SUBMITTER: Lee TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1444936 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature