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 […]
July 25, 2010
The U.S. National Library of Medicine produces the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus that covers a wide variety of medical terms, cross-references between MeSH records and link-outs to medical literature. MeSH is available for download, where the dataset is either formatted in XML or a proprietary ASCII-based file format (.bin). In this blog post, I […]
July 18, 2012
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