Introduction to the Workshop
URLs Provided by Attendees

Abstracts

Mapping

Informatics

Sequencing

Instrumentation

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues

Infrastructure

The electronic form of this document may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop IV, 1994.

Abstracts scanned from text submitted for November 1994 DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop. Inaccuracies have not been corrected.

The Expressed Gene Anatomy Database (EGAD) project

Chris Fields, Owen White, Carol Bult, Mark D. Adams, and Anthony R. Kerlavage
The Institute for Genomic Research, 932 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD 20878

The Expressed Gene Anatomy Database (EGAD) is a relational database that links genes to rnRNA transcripts and protein products, and to data on gene expression, the biochemical activities and functional roles of proteins, and sequence alignments defining isology classes. EGAD is implemented in SYBASE. Views of EGAD have been populated with data on published human transcripts and their products, and with data supporting metazoan and microbial phylogeny projects. User interfaces to EGAD include a sequence viewer and annotation editor, and a flexible graphic query generator and browser capable of linking any SYBASE databases.

EGAD is designed to provide highly-annotated links between multiple databases in a rdational federation. The EGAD development effort includes refinement of the existing EGAD structure, semantics, and vocabularies, and the development of cross-references, cross-database join capabilities, and other interoperability procedures with other biological databases.