A database for the GMOchips-project GMOchips Kick-off meeting 2001

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A database for the GMOchips-project
GMOchips kick-off meeting Brussels 2001
Jakob Lindenmeyer jakob_at_lindenmeyer.ch Agency
BATS, Switzerland
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Overview

• BATS-Report 2/97 of Wolfram Hemmer
• DMIF-GEN database on GM foods
• BATS-BAG database on future GM crops
• Database (DB) development steps
• DB-requirements in the GMOchips-project
• Goals for the Website GMOchips.org

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Goals of the DMIF-GEN database

• Administration and dissemination of the project
  results (detection methods)
• Administration of the PCR-parameters and primers
  developed in the project
• Information about approved GMOs
• Accessible for the public (through WWW)
• Technology Inprise Interbase and Java

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Relationships of the DMIF-GEN DB
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Relationships of the DMIF-GEN DB
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Interface of the DMIF-GEN database
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Usage of the DMIF-GEN databaseA query over a
number of tables
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Goals of the BATS-BAG database

• Internal knowledge base for the SFOPH
• Focus on petition infos of new GMOs (few
  sequences and no PCR-informations)
• Focus on future GMO-products on the Swiss
  market
• Contacts for GMOs (authorities industry)
• Not primarily available for the public
• Technology MS Access 2000

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Browser-interface of the BATS-BAG DB
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Questions for the DB-development

• Data sources
• Format of the introduced data
• Filters and controls for data entry
• Concept about maintenance
• Access restrictions to the database
• Distribution channels (WWW, publications)

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8 steps of database-development
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DB-requirements for GMOchips

• Management of sequence data
• Storage of PCR-parameters primers
• Administration of Genetic elements (plasmids,
  promotors, terminators, )
• Matching with corresponding petition- and
  industry information
• Accessibility through Internet (WWW)

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Goals of the Website GMOchips.org

• General project information for the public
• Survey forms to collect DB requirements
• Password-protected platform for document and
  software-exchange
• Documentation download of DB-versions
• Internal agenda, meeting infos addresses
• Mailing-list archive
• Dissemination of results at projets end

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The project-website GMOchips.org
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The project-website GMOchips.org
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The project-website GMOchips.org
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All slides are available on the Internet
www.GMOchips.org/docs/kickoff