What is SRS(1/2)

• Read-only data warehouse.

  • It raw working material is text (flatfile databases - EMBL, Swiss-Prot, MEDLINE, HTML, XML files, etc)

• Uses context parsers which are word oriented: ‘glutathione transferase ’indexes as ‘glutathione’ + ‘transferase’

  • it is not a ‘free text search’ engine (but will be!).