What is a secondary database?

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A database that provides an alternative set of keys to access that data is called a secondary database. In a secondary database, the keys are your alternative (or secondary) index, and the data corresponds to a primary record's key.

What is secondary database example?

Secondary databases store information such as conserved sequences, active site residues, and signature sequences. Protein Databank data is stored in secondary databases. Examples include: SCOP at Cambridge University.

What are major secondary databases?

Primary databaseSecondary databaseSynonymsArchival databaseCurated database; knowledgebaseSource of dataDirect submission of experimentally-derived data from researchersResults of analysis, literature research and interpretation, often of data in primary databases

What is difference between primary and secondary database?

1. Primary data is the first data collected by a researcher for the first time. Whereas secondary data is a data that is already collected by someone earlier.

What is meant by secondary database in bioinformatics?

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.

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