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KMD: an open-source port of the ArrayExpress microarray database.

Jean-Pierre Mainguy·Grant Macdonnell·Stefan Bund·David L Wild
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UNLABELLED: The Keck Microarray Database (KMD) is a port of the ArrayExpress database from Oracle to the MySQL environment. The requirements for a locally available, open-source microarray database solution based on ArrayExpress are analysed in this article. The differences between the Oracle and MySQL environments are identified and the method to port to MySQL is described, providing a unified relational database management system (RDBMS) platform for both MIAMExpress and ArrayExpress. AVAILABILITY: The software and documentation are available from the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences website at http://public.kgi.edu/~jmainguy/applied-bioinformatics.htm.

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Database Management SystemsDatabases, ProteinInformation Storage and RetrievalInternetOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisProgramming LanguagesSoftwareUser-Computer InterfaceJournal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Jean-Pierre Mainguy, Grant Macdonnell, Stefan Bund, David L Wild. 2004. KMD: an open-source port of the ArrayExpress microarray database.. https://doi.org/10.2165/00822942-200403040-00008

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