I am looking for a database solution for the microarray facility at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. We are a core facility with dozens of users from labs around the Center and outside. I am looking carefully at BASE, TM4, Longhorn, and maxdLoad2. I have a few questions about BASE that would help me make this decision. Any feedback would be very much appreciated.
Is BASE support for PostgreSQL as strong as support for MySQL? Can I get a detailed version of the schema? All I can find is a general schema overview with tables listed but no fields. The html version of the schema description http:// opensource.microarray.omrf.org/wiki/bin/view/BASE/DatabaseSchema is apparently cut off or just was never finished. Are there tools for batch upload of data? Particularly, I am looking at the situation where our users have designed an experiment, and hybridizations, we (the core lab) will perform the hybridization, scan the array, run a spot analysis (GenPix) upload the data (hopefully not using a web based interface one image at a time). We will then perform standard normalizations / filters and need to get all this into the database so that our users can analyze the data later. I this a situation that BASE would be strong at? When will BASE 2.0 be ready for production? How many labs are currently using BASE? If you have any ideas about how the various alternatives stack up please let me know. Be as technical as needed, I am an experienced programmer and with lots of database experience. Is there support for HUGE datasets like Tiling arrays? In these cases we would not necessarily want to hold all of the results as individual records but rather would want to hold the .cel files in some structure so that our users could get to them for analysis using other tools. Thanks David David Waring Ph.D. Programmer, Genomics Resource Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ The BASE general discussion mailing list basedb-users@lists.sourceforge.net unsubscribe: send a mail with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
