The Web Platform for Storing Biotechnologically Significant Properties of Bacterial Strains

Current biology tasks are impracticable without bioinformatic data processing. Information technologies and the newest computers provide the ability to automatically execute algorithms on an extensive data set and store either strong- or weak-structured data. A well-designed architecture of such data warehouses increases the reproducibility of investigations. However, it is challenging to create a data schema that aids fast search of properties in such warehouses. This paper describes the method and its implementation for storing and processing microbiological and bioinformatical data. The web platform stores genomes in FASTA format, genome annotations in table files that indicate gene coordinates in the genomes, structural and mathematical models to compare different strains and predict new properties.