What is a primary data base?

What is primary database vs secondary database?

Primary databases store and make data available to the public, acting as repositories. Secondary databases make use of publicly available sequence data in primary databases to to provide layers of information to DNA or protein sequence data.

Which one is a secondary database?

OMIM is a secondary database consists of data derived from the analysis of primary data such as sequences, active site residue of proteins and so on. Thus the correct answer is option C.

What is secondary biological database?

Secondary databases contain information derived from primary sequence data which are in the form of regular expressions (patterns), Fingerprints, profiles blocks or Hidden Markov Models. The type of information stored in each of the secondary databases is different.

Is GenBank a primary database or secondary database?

The Primary Databases GenBank hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (or NCBI). The European Nucleotide archive or ENA hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratories (EMBL).