DBGET/LinkDB: A Way of Solution to Integrate Diverged Biological Databases (RESEARCH FACILITY OF NUCLEIC ACIDS)

Abstract

To extract and utilize information from various forms of biological databases together with your own database are labor-intensive for resarchers. We present here an integrated database retrieval system DBGET/LinkDB, which is the backbone of the Japnese GenomeNet service, to manage those tasks. DBGET is used to search and extract entries from a wide range of molecular biology databases, while LinkDB is used to compute links between entries in different dtabases. It is designed to be a network distributed database system with an open architecture, which is suitable for incorporating local databases or establishing a server environment. The WWW version of DBGET/LinkDB is integrated with other search tools, such as BLAST, FASTA and MOTIF to conduct further retrievals instantly. Moreover, LinkDB can search biological links to get more abstract links of biological objects, and it is the first step toward computerization of logical reasoning process of biological data.