Michael Mader and Werner Mewes
Database and R Interfacing for Annotated Microarray Data
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A framework for expression data repositories (MAGE-ML compatiblity)
emerged during the last years. Focus is now shifting towards the
integration of expression databases into genomic and other
bioinformatic database system as well as with statistical analysis
platforms. We present an implementation of such a repository system
at MIPS (http://mips.gsf.de/).
An important requirement for this integration is a flexible and fast
interface between the DBMS and the statistical environment. This
interface must handle not only expression values but also a broad
variety of annotation. Therefore, we have implemented the interface
employing template programming with the Oracle Template Library (OTL).