BioWarehouse Software Overview: "BioWarehouse – Database Integration for Bioinformatics
V3.5 6/21/2005
Overview
BioWarehouse is a component of the Bio-SPICE project. BioWarehouse is an open-source software environment for integrating a set of biological databases into a single physical database management system for data management, mining, and exploration.
Key features of BioWarehouse:
* A relational database schema that models important bioinformatics datatypes
* BioWarehouse instances can be implemented using either the Oracle or MySQL database management systems
* A collection of loader programs that populate the warehouse with data from public biological databases
* The loader programs transform the syntax of the source databases into relational form, and transform the diverse semantics of the source database into the common semantics of the BioWarehouse schema.
BioWarehouse Loaders"
