Building and Maintaining a Database for Arabidopsis thaliana
Author Information
Author(s): Danforth Weems, Neil Miller, Margarita Garcia-Hernandez, Eva Huala, Seung Y. Rhee
Primary Institution: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Conclusion
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) serves as a comprehensive web-based database that integrates various biological data for Arabidopsis thaliana, facilitating research and data access.
Supporting Evidence
- TAIR has grown dramatically in usage, providing approximately 300 Gb of information to 834,000 unique IP addresses.
- Currently, TAIR stores 33 Gb of data, including 21,498 publications and over 6 million microarray expression data points.
- TAIR has made substantial progress in both manual and automated functional annotation of the Arabidopsis genome.
Takeaway
TAIR is like a big library for scientists studying a plant called Arabidopsis. It helps them find and understand lots of information about the plant's genes and other important details.
Methodology
The database was designed in three phases: conceptual design, logical translation, and physical implementation, using community standards and relational database principles.
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