BSRC Fleming’s BioIT unit is concerned with data acquisition and integration from wet lab scientists both inside and outside the institute. Unit members focus on building, maintaining and providing biological databases and information services for the research community. Excellency of data curation and appliance of cutting edge technology have placed the unit in the centre of recent developments in the field of biological resources.

Current BioIT projects include:

•MMdb (www.mugen-noe.org/database/) - a database of murine animal models of immune processes and immunological diseases (Aidinis et al., 2008). Phenotypic description is standardized and hierarchically structured, based on MGI’s mammalian phenotypic ontology terms and recently implemented PATO logical definitions.
•TgDb (www.fleming.gr/tgdb/) - a virtual repository of genetically modified mice expressing Cre recombinase and other conditional systems under the control of cell-specific promoters/enhancers.
•MRB (www.fleming.gr/mrb/) - a ‘database of mouse databases’ that includes an updated mouse resource list, comments on scientific content, basic categorization of all resources, a search interface that helps users to detect the most appropriate database according to their request, a scoring system and user comment’s board thus allowing users to share their opinion on an included mouse resource.
•EMI (www.fleming.gr/emi) – a web service client, a simple web application that handles data representation for MMdb and TgDb and also provides a simple query interface for both resources.

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