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From: The Ruby UCSC API: accessing the UCSC genome database using Ruby

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Overview of the Ruby UCSC API. The UCSC genome database provides a public MySQL server consisting of multiple databases, e.g. mm9, hg18, and hg19. Each database contains many tables. The Ruby UCSC API and the ActiveRecord framework automatically define classes and instance methods corresponding to tables and their fields, respectively.

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BMC Bioinformatics

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