BTW, back in 2002 I was using an XML version of Gerhard Michal’s “Biochemical Pathways” as part of a bioinformatics software package, accessed via XSLT / XPATH, and the performance blew away the RDB experts at Uni Mannheim’s CS Dept.
Your anecdote is interesting too; there are however multiple free variables here, most notably the tasks being served and the structures required, but also the skill of the various participants.
Having interacted with health care systems only rarely during the course of my life, I have very little insight to offer on this topic. That said, I wonder whether any of these national databases can be reconciled with any of the others, and whether they can ever be fixed...? Or am I getting ahead of myself, since you'll likely be tackling these issues down the line? ;)
Would “a flock of pidgins” work?
BTW, back in 2002 I was using an XML version of Gerhard Michal’s “Biochemical Pathways” as part of a bioinformatics software package, accessed via XSLT / XPATH, and the performance blew away the RDB experts at Uni Mannheim’s CS Dept.
I liked the 'flock' :)
Your anecdote is interesting too; there are however multiple free variables here, most notably the tasks being served and the structures required, but also the skill of the various participants.
Having interacted with health care systems only rarely during the course of my life, I have very little insight to offer on this topic. That said, I wonder whether any of these national databases can be reconciled with any of the others, and whether they can ever be fixed...? Or am I getting ahead of myself, since you'll likely be tackling these issues down the line? ;)