Difference between revisions of "BioMart"

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Description

BioMart is a robust, query-oriented data integration system, based on distributed data warehousing ideas. The system can be applied to a single or multiple databases. It supports scalable large scale querying of individual databases as well as query-chaining between them. All datasources in the system comply with the BioMart data model - a simple, query optimised database schema. The system consists of database schema specification, administration tools for deploying and configuring mart-spec databases and data access software, which includes web and standalone interfaces.

Demo & Screenshots

The BioMart web interface at EBI can be found here. For Ensembl implemetation look here. The screenshots of standalone interfaces and admin tools can be found here

Requirements

The requirements will differ dependent on which part of the BioMart suite you want to install. For more details look http://www.biomart.org/install-overview.html

Documentation

http://www.biomart.org/install.html

Contact

http://www.biomart.org/contact.html

Downloads

The download/installation instructions can be found http://www.biomart.org/install-overview.html