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DATABASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organized body of related information
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("database" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "database"):
list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))
computer database; electronic database; electronic information service; on-line database ((computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers)
subdata base (a subset of data in a database that are used in a specific application)
Context examples:
An online database developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute.
(PDQ Information System, NCI Dictionary)
A software package for the statistical validation of peptide identifications made by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and database searching.
(PeptideProphet, NCI Thesaurus)
Physician Data Query is an online database developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute.
(Physician Data Query, NCI Dictionary)
PDQ is an online database developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute.
(PDQ, NCI Dictionary)
The database contains textual information and references.
(Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, NCI Thesaurus)
The NCI-Funded Research Portfolio Database is a searchable database that contains information about research grant and contract awards made by the NCI for the current and past five fiscal years.
(NCI-Funded Research Portfolio Database, NCI Thesaurus)
A special value that may be stored in some database columns to represent an unknown, missing, not applicable, or undefined value.
(Null, NCI Thesaurus)
A single data item related to a database object.
(Object Attribute, NCI Thesaurus)
The CBRG also supports the development of databases and informatics systems to optimize tracking and assessment of biomarker utility and expression patterns.
(Cancer Biomarkers Research Group, NCI Thesaurus)
A program that compares a sequence to a database of known parallel two-stranded coiled-coils and derives a similarity score.
(COILS Program, NCI Thesaurus)
