In the letter, the senators asked what could be done to either improve an existing government-run database, expand it or create a new one, so that drug makers would be required to post both the existence of a drug trial and its results.
As the Gramene database expands its schema to absorb this new data, the challenge of isolating genes underlying QTL becomes easier.
Prior to the current age of birth certificate and other large electronic databases, expanding computational power, and statistical software packages, it was recognized that these simple metrics had some small problems, but gave reasonable estimates to compare risk factors.
In the 21st century his list of executive outrages grew long again, this time provoked by the war on terror: surveillance of Americans by government agencies, the growth of biometric databases, expanded powers of detention, pervasive secrecy.
But as genetic databases expand, this should become easier.
Website additions included histories, rollback functionality and upgrades to searching capabilities for the wiki-database, expanded forum moderation tools and API filtering and sorts.
Using multiple databases expanded the number of potential targets due to the unique PPIs per database.
As more genomes of pathogens are sequenced and PPI databases expanded, this methodology will become increasingly applicable.
As data standards develop and databases expand, EHRs will contribute more and more to disease detection and the discovery of novel disease associations.
Import of RGD data into other publicly available databases expands the influence of RGD to a larger set of end users than those who avail themselves of the RGD website.
