Design considerations for small, special-system developmental databases

被引：4

作者：

Davies, JA

Brandli, AW

Hunter, D

Nieminen, P

机构：

[1] Univ Edinburgh, Ctr Dev Biol, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Midlothian, Scotland

[2] Univ Edinburgh, Dept Anat, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Midlothian, Scotland

[3] ETH Honggerberg, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Cell Biol, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

[4] Univ Helsinki, Inst Dent, Dev Biol Programme, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

[5] Univ Helsinki, Inst Biotechnol, Bioctr 1A, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

来源：

SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY | 1997年 / 8卷 / 05期

基金：

英国医学研究理事会;

关键词：

database; development; ducted glands; !text type='HTML']HTML[!/text; Internet; tooth; kidney;

D O I：

10.1006/scdb.1997.0176

中图分类号：

Q2 [细胞生物学];

学科分类号：

071009 ; 090102 ;

摘要：

Small developmental databases, devoted to special systems and run by a normal research laboratory, differ qualitatively as well as quantitatively from larger databases described elsewhere in this volume. Resource limits set different optimum balances between computing elegance and ease of construction, while flexibility of design and semantics often assume greatest importance because specialist research data-bases are most useful when understanding of the biology is partial and still evolving. In this article we discuss the main considerations when building a small database-scope, access, data input, storage, searching and semantics-and illustrate them with examples of real working databases. (C) 1997 Academic Press Ltd.

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页码：519 / 525

页数：7