title: The Make 2D-DB II package: conversion of federated two-dimensional gel electrophoresis databases into a relational format and interconnection of distributed databases.
abstract: The Make 2D-DB tool has been previously developed to help build federated two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) databases on one's own web site. The purpose of our work is to extend the strength of the first package and to build a more efficient environment. Such an environment should be able to fulfill the different needs and requirements arising from both the growing use of 2-DE techniques and the increasing amount of distributed experimental data.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Centre Médical Universitaire (CMU), 1 Rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. khaled.mostaguir@isb-sib.ch
authors.forename: Khaled
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mostaguir
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hoogland
authors.forename: Pierre-Alain
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Binz
authors.forename: Ron D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Appel
mesh_terms: D030562:Databases, Protein; D015180:Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D018511:Systems Integration