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Briefings in Bioinformatics 2004 5(1):31-38; doi:10.1093/bib/5.1.31
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© Henry Stewart Publications

Special Issue papers

Biological database design and implementation

Ewan Birney
EBI as one of the founding investigators for the Ensembl project. He is now a senior scientist at the EBI and runs both research and database projects.

Michele Clamp
Sanger Institute as one of the founding investigators for the Ensembl project. She now works at the Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA.


Ewan Birney, EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 494420 Fax: +44 (0)1223 494468 E-mail: birney{at}ebi.ac.uk

We present our experience of building biological databases. Such databases have most aspects in common with other complex databases in other fields. We do not believe that biological data are that different from complex data in other fields. Our experience has led us to emphasise simplicity and conservative technology choices when building these databases. This is a short paper of advice that we hope is useful to people designing their own biological database.

Keywords: database design, software engineering, source code control


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