Chado is a relational database schema that underlies many GMOD installations. The initial version of Chado was designed by Chris Mungall (BBOP) and Dave Emmert (FlyBase), and later developed by the GMOD community.

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Chado introduction from Chris Mungall (2007)

References

  • Mungall CJ, Emmert DB, FlyBase Consortium. A Chado case study: an ontology-based modular schema for representing genome-associated biological information. Bioinformatics. 2007 Jul 1;23(13):i337–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm189
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