MitoDat - notes

Data collection methodology for MitoDat

Data collection began by noting the enzymes and proteins present in mitochondria as described in the Tyler92 book. Table 4.1 from Munn74 was utilized also initially. Primary literature found during research projects served as the next source. The assembled list was then compared to GDB files.

Then databases of organisms other than man are searched. We are currently working to automate and improve our system of data collection.

MitoDat References

  1. Zullo S, Chipperfield M, Merril C, Lemkin P (1995). MitoDat: The Database of Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genes and Proteins of Mitochondria. In preparation.
  2. Lemkin PF, Chipperfield M, Merril C, Zullo S (1996) A World Wide Web (WWW) server database engine for an organelle database, MitoDat. Electrophoresis 17(2), 556-572.

The Database Engine used by MitoDat: dbEngine

MitoDat uses a simple database search engine dbEngine which creates a searchable database on a World Wide Web (WWW) server. Data for dbEngine is prepared from spreadsheet programs (such as Excel, etc.) or from tables exported from relational database systems. As a Common Gateway Interface (CGI-BIN) program, dbEngine is used with a WWW server such as available commercially, or from NCSA or CERN. Capabilities include: 1) searching records by combinations of terms connected with ANDs or ORs; 2) returning search results as hypertext links to other WWW database servers; 3) mapping lists of literature reference identifiers to the full references; 4) creating bidirectional hypertext links between pictures and the database.
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