SRS
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SRS
Overview
The Sequence Retrieval System (SRS), developed at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and by the Biowisdom company and used by major research centres, provides a single interface for access to the biological databases (DBs) and creates links for multiple searches. Thus, data from various DBs can be compared with each other and with locally produced data. Researcher can also create personal projects and store, retrieve and further access all performed queries and relative results.
The system
By using SRS, it is possible to query DBs by string and/or numerical words. The system, in fact, indexes the words contained in almost fields of records within the databases and creates specific indices; these inidices are quickly scanned when queries are performed, allowing rapid retrieve of those data which satisfy the search criteria.
SRS at CEINGE
At CEINGE, SRS (version 7.1.3.2) is installed locally and used to manage over 60 of the most popular biological DBs, such as EMBL, UNIPROT, REFSEQ, ENTREZGENE, UNIGENE, PFAM, INTERPRO, PATHWAY, PDB and many others. Databases produced in house are easily integrated into SRS, allowing researcher to compare and link local data with public ones.
