<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>I'm a post-doctoral fellow in bioinformatics and my lab is about to receive data generated from a massively parallel sequencing platform -- Illumina's genome analyzer. The data will contain several million short sequence reads from mRNA and microRNA. There are several software packages to align the reads to the human genome, but I will need to create a way to store, filter, and efficiently annotate these reads. I'm thinking of loading the data into a chado database, and using applications such as GBrowse to view the data. I'm wondering if you have any experience with using GMOD software/applications for this type of data? I'm wondering if the data will be too extensive to be queried in a database? If you have any advice/suggestions I would really appreciate it.</div>
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<div>Thank you very much,</div>
<div>Jennifer Beane, Ph.D</div>
<div>Post-doctoral Fellow</div>
<div>Boston University School of Medicine</div>