The Intelligent Data Loader (IDL) component of GIDL is an Extract, Transform and Load software able to parse data, to discover hidden information in the GenBank entries and to populate the Molecular Biodiversity Database.
The peculiarity of Chado, and also its strength, is the adoption of an ontological schema which makes use of the Sequence Ontology. The MolecularData area is inspired to an established standard in Generic Model Organism Databases, the Chado relational schema. The relational database schema is designed to manage biodiversity information (Molecular Biodiversity Database) and it is organized in four areas: MolecularData, Experiment, Collection and Taxonomy. The GIDL architecture consists of a relational database and of an intelligent data loader software.
