Bioinformatics : use a database for data
February 26th, 2007Previously, I wrote about organising your file system to make the relationships between files that produce data, and files containing data more descriptive. One of the best tips I’ve been given, is to store all my data in a database. Regardless of what the data is, or how “mission critical”. Here are some reasons to use a database, rather than files, to store your data.