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ANNOUNCING GDB-Lite:
a user-friendly browsing and data entry tool
for the Genome Data Base
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The Informatics Core of the Human Genome Center at Baylor College of
Medicine announces the release of GDB-Lite, a user-friendly GDB browsing
and data-entry tool for the Macintosh.
GDB-Lite provides investigators in the Human Genome Project an easy
method to access and search GDB (the Genome Data Base at The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine). Reports incorporating data from several
GDB tables can be generated easily. GDB-Lite creates submission forms
for GDB, automatically formatting the information entered into the
database by the user.
GDB-Lite was developed using 4th Dimension (4D), a powerful yet easy-to-use
relational database system for the Macintosh. Use of GDB-Lite requires
4D Runtime v3.0, available from ACIUS, Inc. (An educational discount is
available when ordering directly from ACIUS.) GDB-Lite requires a Macintosh
with a hard disk and a 12" (or larger) monochrome or high-resolution
color moniter.
GDB-Lite is compatible with GDB release 5.1. The data is periodically
extracted from GDB at Baylor College of Medicine and made available by
anonymous ftp. The data for chromosomes 6, 17 and X is currently available.
Other data sets can be provided if a need is present.
GDB-Lite is available by anonymous ftp from gc.bcm.tmc.edu. All comments
should be sent to gdb-lite at bcm.tmc.edu.
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Randall F. Smith Joanna L. Power
Institute for Molecular Genetics Human Genome Center
Baylor College of Medicine Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX 77030 Houston, TX 77030
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Contact:
Joanna L. Power
Human Genome Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX 77030
jpower at bcm.tmc.edu
713-198-4689
713-798-5385 (fax)
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