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A World Wide Web (WWW) server database engine for an organelle database, MitoDat
P F Lemkin1, M Chipperfield, C Merril
1Image Processing Section/LMMB, NCI-FCRDC/NIH, Frederick, MD 21702, USA. lemkin/ncifcrf.gov
Electrophoresis
|March 1, 1996
Summary
dbEngine is a simple database search engine for creating searchable World Wide Web (WWW) databases. It facilitates data preparation from spreadsheets and supports advanced search functionalities for enhanced data retrieval and linking.
Area of Science:
- Computer Science
- Bioinformatics
- Web Technologies
Background:
- Creating searchable databases on the World Wide Web (WWW) requires efficient tools.
- Existing methods may lack flexibility in data input and search capabilities.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce "dbEngine", a novel Common Gateway Interface (CGI-BIN) program.
- To enable rapid creation of searchable WWW databases from various data sources.
Main Methods:
- dbEngine processes data from spreadsheet programs or relational database systems.
- It functions as a CGI-BIN program on WWW servers (commercial, NCSA, CERN).
- Supports Boolean searches (AND/OR) and returns results as hypertext links.
Main Results:
- Enables searching records by combined terms using AND/OR logic.
- Search results are presented as hypertext links to other WWW database servers.
- Facilitates mapping of literature identifiers to full references and bidirectional linking between images and databases.
- Successfully supports the MitoDat database for mitochondrial inheritance information.
Conclusions:
- dbEngine offers a versatile solution for building and searching WWW databases.
- Its features enhance data accessibility and interlinking, as demonstrated by the MitoDat application.