ABSTRACT
Experiments in genomics produce potentially an enormous mass of knowledge that can be validated, only if it is organized and centralized in databases. Very simply put, there are three major types of databases: flat file databases, relational databases, and object-oriented databases. Databases are used by means of specially designed software in which most of the conception functions, query, and administration are facilitated. In the field of relational database management systems, the commercial software Oracle has almost become a standard in a large number of applications. The development of Web interfaces has been a turning point in the conception of a database in Biology. Libraries manage, archive, and make available to the scientific community all the nucleic acid and protein sequences published in the world and the biological annotations associated with them. The integrated information system will thus allow coherent management and traceability of data produced in genomics experiments.
