A Project of the LMU Bioinformatics Group
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XMLPipeDB

A Reusable, Open Source Tool Chain for Building Relational Databases from XML Sources

People

XMLPipeDB was created by the Bioinformatics Group at Loyola Marymount University, a collaborative research group founded by Dr. Kam D. Dahlquist (Department of Biology) and Dr. John David N. Dionisio (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). XMLPipeDB development began in Spring 2006 as a group project in a special studies course in Bioinformatics (CMSI 698/BIOL 498) team-taught by Drs. Dahlquist and Dionisio. Development continued in a second special studies course, Open Source Software Development Workshop (CMSI 698/598) and has transitioned into an undergraduate Biological Databases (CMSI 398) course. XMLPipeDB also follows the philosophy of Dr. Dionisio’s Recourse project, which seeks to introduce an open source culture into the computer science curriculum.

Principal Investigators

Kam D. Dahlquist, Ph.D.

http://myweb.lmu.edu/kdahlqui

Department of Biology

John David N. Dionisio, Ph.D.

http://myweb.lmu.edu/dondi

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Manager of Laboratory Facilities

Andrés Buriticá

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Assistants

Alexandrea Alphonso

Jeffrey Nicholas (Masters thesis completed 2007)

Derek Smith

Chad Villaflores

Undergraduate Students

Alexandrea Alphonso

Amanda Bierbauer

Molly Bogeberg

Kelsi Busch

Thomas DeGuzman

Chester Hawkins

Ashley Hunter

Sarah Ifrah

Stephanie Kuelbs

Prestyn Lozano

Courtney McCrary

Daniel Moore

Greg Pierce

Derek Smith

Chad Villaflores

Contributors

xsd2db

Adam Carasso

Jeffrey Nicholas

Scott Spicer

xmlpipedbutils

David Hoffman

Babak Naffas

Jeffrey Nicholas

Ryan Nakamoto

Derek Smith

UniProtDB

Joe Boyle

Joey Barrett

GODB

Scott Spicer

Roberto Ruiz

GenMAPP Builder

Joey Barrett

Ashley Hunter

Jeffrey Nicholas

Derek Smith

Scott Spicer

Web Site

Ryan Nakamoto

Wesley Citti (XMLPipeDB logo)

If you would like to participate in or contribute to XMLPipeDB, please contact Dr. Dahlquist or Dr. Dionisio either directly or through our SourceForge project.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the GenMAPP.org Development Group, especially Bruce R. Conklin, Steven C. Lawlor, and Scott W. Doniger. We also wish to thank the LMU Departments of Biology and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science for giving us the opportunity to team-teach bioinformatics at LMU, as well as the Seaver College of Science & Engineering for encouraging interdisciplinary research. Thank you also to Caskey Dickson for all of his technical assistance.