[Bioperl-l] Bioperl + Oracle 8i Database

[Elia Stupka]

> i am just reading oracle magazine ("Cracking the Code of Life") and it 
> said, "Unfortunately, the IT infrastructure that many research 
> facilities depend on today is little more than a collection of flat 
> files strung together with perl scripts and propieatary algorithms."
> Because of this, i'm considering to use Oracle for storing Data.

In that same article it talks about the large databases and services 
provided by the EBI and the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, UK. You'd be 
interested to know that the largest resource provided there is Ensembl, 
a large genome annotation service, which actually relies on MySQL 
rather than Oracle, and builds upon some of the code from BioPerl.

Finally, bioperl per se has no database dependency. BioSQL is the 
OpenBio relational database project, which works well with Oracle, 
Postgres, and MySQL.

Elia