title: KMD: an open-source port of the ArrayExpress microarray database.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. jmainguy@kgi.edu
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Mainguy
authors.forename: Grant
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Macdonnell
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bund
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Wild
mesh_terms: 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