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SRS
SRS at CEINGE
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. At CEINGE, SRS (version 7.1.3.2) is installed locally and used to manage over 60 of the most popular public 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 researchers to compare and link local data with public ones. An automatic procedure specifically developed at CEINGE takes care to mantain the databases up to date: every night public servers are checked for the presence of new releases and eventually new data are downloaded and automatically indexed. Many applications, such as those of the EMBOSS package, are integrated.
The system
By using the SRS web interface, 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 also allows to create personal views of the data and to launch many applications directly from the wed interface.
More details about SRS and how to use it are available here
How to reach SRS at CEINGE
SRS is available directly from the Bioinfo website (look at Image:SRS.jpg) or at the address http://bioinfo.ceinge.unina.it/srs7131/ .
References
Etzold, T and Argos, P SRS--an indexing and retrieval tool for flat file data libraries CABIOS 9, 49-57, 1993.
The official public server of SRS is mantained at SRS@EBI
