Relax with CouchDB - Into the non-relational DBMS era of bioinformatics

Genomics

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Manyam, Ganiraju ^a   Payton, Michelle A ^a   Roth, Jack A ^a   Abruzzo, Lynne V ^a   Coombes, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy number variation; Data integration; Drug target interaction; NoSQL database

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WEB BROWSER;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; HAPMAP PROJECT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INTERNET;

EID: 84862753629     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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