BioMart is a federated database system that provides web interfaces and web services for relational database management systems and offers tools for configuring and deploying optimised database schemas as marts. A mart is an instance of a data warehouse, which is a collection of schemas that are optimised for a given purpose. In BioMart’s case, the schemas are […]
October 8, 2011
Following my first post of the relatively new “mini” series, I have made some further improvements to the pubmed2ensembl query wrapper. Two new features are now implemented in bioknack‘s bk_pubmed2ensembl.rb script: retrieval of PubMed Central IDs besides the already retrievable PubMed IDs, and querying of Ensembl gene IDs by PubMed Central/PubMed ID Brief Recap www.pubmed2ensembl.org is a […]
June 17, 2011
This is the first post in a new “mini” series of tool features and research results. Unlike previous long winded blog posts, the mini series only features a very short description of the topic, gives an example and concludes. bioknack‘s collection of tools has been extended with a small command line tool for retrieving the […]
July 18, 2012
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