Building a database of cancer genomic data

• Main Author: Woo, Sherman Wei Hao
• Other Authors: Zheng Jie
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Database management; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Software::Software engineering; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Software::Programming techniques
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67289
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cancer is known to be a genetic disease. Due to the inherent complexity of cancer, large-scale genomic datasets are necessary to study this disease. In this project, the goal is to firstly download publically available data about cancer and integrate them into a database. The architecture of the database was designed according to the structured nature of the data and convenience of usage. As such, the design of the database adopts a data warehousing strategy. The database design and queries will be discussed and further developments like adopting a distributed systems approach and combining both SQL and NoSQL capabilities have been briefly mentioned.