Information Systems for Biomedical Databases

Description.

Introduction to information systems and database systems. Information systems and database systems architectures and design Data modeling using the entity – relationship model. The database relational model. Relational algebra. The SQL language. SQL query optimization Data security and privacy-preservation topics and techniques. Data types in bioinformatics. Biological and medical databases. Databases of literature, protein and DNA sequences, structures, folders and families, gene expression databases, other specialised forms of databases. Examples of biomedical databases. Advanced topics and applications.

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