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. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server issue):W766-9.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gki422.

MRS: a fast and compact retrieval system for biological data

M L Hekkelman  1 , G Vriend
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MRS: a fast and compact retrieval system for biological data

M L Hekkelman et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The biological data explosion of the 'omics' era requires fast access to many data types in rapidly growing data banks. The MRS server allows for very rapid queries in a large number of flat-file data banks, such as EMBL, UniProt, OMIM, dbEST, PDB, KEGG, etc. This server combines a fast and reliable backend with a very user-friendly implementation of all the commonly used information retrieval facilities. The MRS server is freely accessible at http://mrs.cmbi.ru.nl/. Moreover, the MRS software is freely available at http://mrs.cmbi.ru.nl/download/ for those interested in making their own data banks available via a web-based server.

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Figure 1
MRS-file data structure.
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Figure 2
Query form and results for a ‘full text search’ on all data banks.
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Figure 3
Query for and results for a ‘single field search’ on one data bank.
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