Figure 1

Java classes. Four Java classes are used to define the Gene, Strain, Logininformation and Blastdbupdate objects. The Gene class defines variables for the following annotated gene information: gene identification (gid and geneId), gene function (function), the protein sequence (proteinSequence), a description of the gene (geneDescription), the name of the gene (geneName), the size of the protein (proteinSize), the subcellular localization (localization), if the protein is predicted to be a lipoprotein (lipoprotein), if the protein is predicted to have a signal sequence (signalSequence) and the set of strains that contain the genes (Set<Strain> strains). The Strain class defines variables for strain information such as a strain identifier (sid and strainId), the strain name (strainName), a description of the strain (strainDescription), and the set of genes contained in the strain (Set<Gene> genes). The Logininformation class defines variables for the user login identifier (LogininformationId id), the usertype and the time the user logged in (lastlogon). The Blastdbupdate class defines variables for the date the last update was made to the data (dateId and updatedDate).