databases

Question 1

def of a database

Answer 1

a collection of related data
–> data; known facts
–> implicit meaning, suggested/understood without being directly stated
–> assume computerized
–> structured, some degree of interaction
–> built with a perpose

Question 2

wat is an other word for tables in a DB

Answer 2

data types

Question 3

each table has several; info

Answer 3

records

Question 4

a type is described by several;

Answer 4

attributes

Question 5

one of the attributes can be seen as the main one

Answer 5

the key identifier

Question 6

related data records are linked through:

Answer 6

foreign keys

Question 7

welke DB vallen er onder de NCBI

Answer 7

NCBI = national center of biotechnology info
- genbank: all sequences
- refseq: clean, non-redundant seq
- unigene: mRNA
- protein: prot

Question 8

welke DB vallen er onder EBI

Answer 8

EBI = european bioinformatics institute
- EMBL- bank: all seq
- uniprot: prot

Question 9

welke DB vallen onder NGI

Answer 9

• DDBJ: DNA data bank of japan

Question 10

wich orgasm specific seq databases

Answer 10

• SGD: Saccharomyces Genome Database
• TAIR: The Arabidopsis Information Resource
• FlyBase: fruitvliegje

Question 11

databases containing a specific type of seq

Answer 11

• Repbase: repeats
• MiRBase: miRNAs
• EPD: promotors
• UniVec: vectors