[BioSQL-l] trivial enquiry

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi Gerardo,

Basicaly, you are asking if there is a repository of believable 
meta-data about the things we encounter in bioinformatics. The answer 
unfortunately is that there doesn't seem to be. I think this sort of 
thing was attempted in TAMBIS, but the formats and schemas changed so 
rapidly that TAMBIS was constantly out of date.

If we had this available, life would be much easier. The world would be 
a better place. Are you interested in helping to compile such a resource?

Matthew

gerardo ramirez wrote:
> I am quite new to bionfo, so I hope my question do not disturb any one, 
> I have seen so many data bases in biology, some protein dbs and some dna 
> dbs, so I wonder is there any kind of tree where you can see the 
> relation among the different existing dbs? some tree where for example: 
> gen bank is primarly a DNA db, with more inf, and related info to  DNA 
> and so on but mainly a dna db, so aomong a whole genome (any one) I 
> wonder if  for example othe dna related dbs are included in a biger one? 
> are ESTs (or any other dna related information db) dbs some how related 
> to genank? has this relation been schematized? the same when it comes to 
> protein dbs, among all of protein dbs is there a schema where you can 
> see for example wich db contain wich? where can I find relevant 
> information about the dbs schemas used in biology? I hope my question do 
> not be.. ... orrelevant or quite newbe, thanks a lot in advance.
> 
> 
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