What is another name for secondary database?

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By contrast, secondary databases comprise data derived from the results of analysing primary data. They are often referred to as curated databases but this is a bit of a misnomer because primary databases are also curated to ensure that the data in them is consistent and accurate.

What is a secondary database?

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.

Is PDB a secondary database?

PDB (Berman et al., 2000) is the most comprehensive repository of structure data for biological macromolecules. The repository contains the primary structure and secondary structure information along with the atomic coordinates of a constituent atoms of biomolecule. It also contains corresponding experimental data.

Is Swiss Prot a secondary database?

Hint: A primary database is one that makes information available to the public. The secondary databases take this information on sequences to then add layers to the existing DNA sequence and protein sequence data. Complete answer: SWISS PROT is a protein sequence database.

What is difference between secondary and primary 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.

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