A WORLD-WIDE-WEB (WWW) SERVER DATABASE ENGINE FOR AN ORGANELLE DATABASE, MITODAT

We describe a simple database search engine ''dbEngine'' which may be used to quickly create a searchable database on a World Wide Web (WWW) server. Data may be prepared from spreadsheet programs (such as Excel , etc.) or from tables exported from relational database systems. This Common Gateway Interface (CGI-BIN) program is used with a WWW server such as available commercially, or from National Center for Supercompu ter Algorithms (NCSA) or CERN. Its capabilities include: (i) searching records by combinations of terms connected with ANDs or ORs; (ii) ret urning search results as hypertext links to other WWW database servers ; (iii) mapping lists of literature reference identifiers to the full references; (iv) creating bidirectional hypertext links between pictur es and the database. DbEngine has been used to support the MitoDat dat abase (Mendelian and non-Mendelian inheritance associated with the Mit ochondrion) on the WWW.