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Alun W Ashton

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PubMed2005

MOLE: a data management application based on a protein production data model.

MOLE (mining, organizing, and logging experiments) has been developed to meet the growing data management and target tracking needs of molecular biologists and protein crystallographers. The prototype reported here will become a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to help protein scientists manage the large amounts of laboratory data being generated due to the acceleration in proteome research and will furthermore facilitate collaborations between groups based at different sites. To achieve this, MOLE is based on the data model for protein production devised at the European Bioinformatics Institute (Pajon A, et al., Proteins in press).

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PubMed2005

Design of a data model for developing laboratory information management and analysis systems for protein production.

Data management has emerged as one of the central issues in the high-throughput processes of taking a protein target sequence through to a protein sample. To simplify this task, and following extensive consultation with the international structural genomics community, we describe here a model of the data related to protein production. The model is suitable for both large and small facilities for use in tracking samples, experiments, and results through the many procedures involved. The model is described in Unified Modeling Language (UML). In addition, we present relational database schemas derived from the UML. These relational schemas are already in use in a number of data management projects.

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