GCSDB is a web-oriented integrated database system for the Georgia Centenarian Study, a phase III, population-based, multidisciplinary study of centenarians. The Study recruited 244 centenarians and near-centenarians (age 98 and older), 80 octogenarians and 400 young controls in Northern Georgia. GCSDB incorporates more than 40 relational tables containing data about the participants including demographics, family longevity, physical health, cognition, neuropsychology, mental health, neuropathology, functional capacity, and genetics. The GCSDB web site includes detailed information about these tables and functions for genetic and other kinds of data analysis. More data and functions will be added as the study progresses. GCSDB provides a resource that could be used to identify what biological, psychological, and social factors as well as their epistatic interactions help these centenarians achieve long life

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Title		GCSDB: an integrated database system for the Georgia Centenarian Study
Authors		Jianliang Dai², Adam Davey¹, Ilene C. Siegler³, Jonathan Arnold^2*, Leonard W. Poon² for the Georgia Centenarian Study⁴
Affiliation		¹ Temple University;2 The University of Georgia;³ FN Duke University Medical Center; ⁴The Georgia Centenarian Study (Leonard W. Poon, PI)
Email		arnold@uga.edu; * Corresponding author
Article Type		Web Database
Date		received September 05, 2006;revised October 02,2006; accepted October 02, 2006; published online October 07, 2006
Abstract		GCSDB is a web-oriented integrated database system for the Georgia Centenarian Study, a phase III, population-based, multidisciplinary study of centenarians. The Study recruited 244 centenarians and near-centenarians (age 98 and older), 80 octogenarians and 400 young controls in Northern Georgia. GCSDB incorporates more than 40 relational tables containing data about the participants including demographics, family longevity, physical health, cognition, neuropsychology, mental health, neuropathology, functional capacity, and genetics. The GCSDB web site includes detailed information about these tables and functions for genetic and other kinds of data analysis. More data and functions will be added as the study progresses. GCSDB provides a resource that could be used to identify what biological, psychological, and social factors as well as their epistatic interactions help these centenarians achieve long life.
Availablity		http://qa.genetics.uga.edu (login information can be obtained from authors)
Keywords		centenarian; cognition; database; longevity; mental health; neuropathology; neuropsychology; functional capacity; Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNPs)
Citation		Dai et al., Bioinformation 1(6): 214-219 (2006)
Edited by		M. K. Sakharkar
ISSN		0973-2063
Publisher		Biomedical Informatics
License		This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.