Do you need to access sequences from multiple places? Would you like to easily retrieve your own local sequences from indexed flat files, all other sequences on species X from department wide raletional database and the rest from global internet servers?
The Open Biological Database Access (OBDA) System was designed so that one could use the same application code to access data from all three of the database types by simply changing a few lines in a “configuration file”. This makes application code more portable and easier to maintain.
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