title: GeneRecords: a relational database for GenBank flat file parsing and data manipulation in personal computers.
abstract: Extracting the desired data from a database entry for later analysis is a constant need in the biological sequence analysis community; GeneRecords 1.0 is a solution for GenBank biological flat file parsing, as it implements a structured representation of each feature and feature qualifier in GenBank following import in a common database managing system usable in a personal computer (Macintosh and Windows environments). This collection of related databases enables the local management of GenBank records, allowing indexing, retrieval and analysis of both information and sequences on a personal computer.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The current release, including the FileMaker Pro runtime application (built for Windows and Macintosh environments), is freely available at http://apollo11.isto.unibo.it/software/
authors.affiliation: Center for Research into Molecular Genetics Fondazione CARISBO, Institute of Histology and General Embriology, University of Bologna, Via Belmeloro, 8-40126 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: D'Addabbo
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lenzi
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Facchin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Casadei
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Canaider
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vitale
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Frabetti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carinci
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zannotti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Strippoli
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008838:Microcomputers; D017421:Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface