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[edit] About this Book

The lecture material and exercises for the course CS 5634: Data Management in Bioinformatics, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) form the basis of this Wikibook. The students of the Fall 2008 semester and the instructor Prof. Naren Ramakrishnan supply transcriptions and renderings from the course lectures.

[edit] Intended Audience

The material of this book is aimed at graduate students with some formal background in computer science and the life sciences.

[edit] Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: E/R Theory
• Chapter 2: Normalization
• E/R Theory and Normalization Exercises
• Chapter 3: Data Querying
• SQL Query Exercises
• Integrating SQL and Programming Languages
• Scratch Notes for Class
• Server Programming: Add programming language to PostgreSQL