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Chapter 13. The European Bioinformatics Institute Macromolecular Structure Relational Database Technology

  1. Arthur M. Lesk
  1. H. Boutselakis1,
  2. D. Dimitropoulos1,
  3. K. Henrick2,
  4. J. Ionides1,
  5. M. John1,
  6. P.A. Keller1,
  7. P. McNeil1,
  8. J. Pineda1,
  9. A. Suarez-Uruena1

Published Online: 8 JUN 2005

DOI: 10.1002/0470012420.ch13

Book Title

Database Annotation in Molecular Biology

Database Annotation in Molecular Biology

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How to Cite

Boutselakis, H., Dimitropoulos, D., Henrick, K., Ionides, J., John, M., Keller, P.A., McNeil, P., Pineda, J. and Suarez-Uruena, A. (2005) The European Bioinformatics Institute Macromolecular Structure Relational Database Technology, in Database Annotation in Molecular Biology (ed A. M. Lesk), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/0470012420.ch13

Editor Information

  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, 512 Wartik Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Author Information

  1. 1

    The European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Cambridge Outstation, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

  2. 2

    EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 8 JUN 2005
  2. Published Print: 26 NOV 2004

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780470856819

Online ISBN: 9780470012420

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Keywords:

  • phenotypes;
  • entity-relationship;
  • Database Design Transformer (DDT);
  • database meta-model;
  • metadatabase;
  • supertype tables;
  • assemblies;
  • data clean-up;
  • deposition database

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Database Design Process

  • Loading and Exporting Data in mmCIF

  • Exporting mmCIFs or XML Files from the Deposition Database

  • Subtypes and ‘Leaf Views’

  • Maintenance Aspects

  • Data Clean-up

  • The Search Database

  • Transformation

  • Incremental Transformation

  • Replication

  • Oracle Cartridge Applications

  • Related Data Warehouse

  • Acknowledgements

  • References

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