KMD: an open-source port of the ArrayExpress microarray database.
The Keck Microarray Database (KMD) is a port of the ArrayExpress database from Oracle to the MySQL environment. The requirements for a locally available, open-source microarray database solution based on ArrayExpress are analysed in this article. The differences between the Oracle and MySQL environments are identified and the method to port to MySQL is described, providing a unified relational database management system (RDBMS) platform for both MIAMExpress and ArrayExpress.


BACKGROUND
The software and documentation are available from the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences website at http://public.kgi.edu/~jmainguy/applied-bioinformatics.htm.
Mainguy
Jean-Pierre
JP
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. jmainguy@kgi.edu
Macdonnell
Grant
G
Bund
Stefan
S
Wild
David L
DL
D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D020407:Internet; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface