In order to have full use of this database, support to the practical implementation of the database is needed through continuous education of professionals for its usage.
We present here a list of 36 genes with high EST clone count (>= 100) and high Z-score (>= 3) (referred to as IL-8 genes, I-1, I-2,..., I-36) (Table 4) to illustrate the usage of this reference database.
The statistics on the OCDB data are reported together with a brief documentation on the usage of the database content.
Finally, the potential usage of the database and its pros and cons shall be discussed in the Discussion section.
To facilitate the usage of the database by individual researcher, we have implemented several web based functionalities to the database, allowing querying, annotating and filtering.
The following examples are rather low-level usage of the database, but the user can have the full control of the query.
The query agent manages all the requests and runs them exclusively in background, so that high usage rates and complex requests do not interfere with the normal usage of the database interface.
We are aware that some erroneous identification (or propagation of erroneous identifications) must have occurred in some cases, but we think that this is a trade-off (which will be continuously corrected) for a much more user-friendly usage of the databases.
Usage of department database, mammograms and case notes.
In addition, our study demonstrated that the increased usage of online database was proportional to that of Web portals.
