ClinVar: improvements to accessing data

ClinVar data parsing

This software repository provides a pipeline for converting raw ClinVar data files into analysis-friendly tab-delimited tables, and also provides these tables for the most recent ClinVar release. Separate tables are generated for genome builds GRCh37 and GRCh38 as well as for mono-allelic variants and complex multi-allelic variants. Additionally, the tables are augmented with allele frequencies...

Barriers to accessing data are bad medicine.

Canada needs to “get its act together” so researchers can benefit from national investments in electronic health records, says researcher Dr. Robyn Tamblyn of McGill University in Montréal. “Each province has population-wide information on hospitalizations, long-term care, physician visits, lab results and diagnostic imaging, and some information on drugs dispensed. Only a couple of countries i...

Accessing to Spatial Data in Mobile Environment

We describe in this paper the data management principles on which data processing is based in an embedded navigation system. We study this management in the framework of a Web-based navigation and spatial data visualization system. We use an Internet-based connection to download the data located on a distant data server and a Web browser interface to process and to visualize them locally. All d...

Accessing Eurostat Data

Accessing Data in Block-Compressed Data Warehouses

The large size of most data warehouses (typically hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes), which results in non-trivial storage costs, makes compression techniques attractive for warehousing environments. In particular, block-level compression (as opposed to attribute or record level schemes) has been shown to achieve the greatest reductions in storage size for databases. A key issue is how to quic...