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data bank

Or 岹ٲ·԰

noun

  1. a fund of information on a particular subject or group of related subjects, usually stored in and used via a computer system.

  2. database.



data bank

noun

  1. a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of data bank1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Bankrupt genetic-testing firm 23andMe agreed to sell its data bank, which once contained DNA samples from about 15 million people, to the drug developer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals for $256 million.

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Indian CPI for September tops the regional calendar, which also includes Indian trade data, bank lending, corporate goods inflation and machinery orders form Japan, and the latest snapshot of industrial production from Malaysia.

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But they warn that the only infallible tool to link these people with their families of origin is DNA testing that continues to be carried out by the National Genetic Data Bank, whose creation they promoted in 1987.

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In March 2009, homicide detectives reopened the case and submitted evidence gathered in 1987 to the CAL-DNA data bank in the hopes a lead would emerge.

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The Protein Data Bank, a critical resource for protein designers, now contains more than 200,000 experimentally solved structures.

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