## about Acedb

Acedb is a genome database system developed over the last 7 years primarily by Jean Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, Montpellier) and Richard Durbin (Sanger Centre). It provides a custom database kernel, with a non-standard data model designed specifically for handling scientific data flexibly, and a graphical user interface with many specific displays and tools for genomic data.

Acedb is used both for managing data within genome projects, and for making genomic data available to the wider scientific community.

Acedb was originally developed for the C.elegans genome project, from which its name was derived (A C. elegans DataBase). However, the tools in it have been generalized to be much more flexible and the same software is now used for many different genomic databases from bacteria to fungi to plants to man. It is also increasingly used for databases with non-biological content.

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last edited: April 1999