One of the aspects I like most about MongoDB is the “store first, ask questions later” approach. No need to worry about table design, column types or constant migrations as design changes. Provided that your data are in some kind of hash-like structure, you just drop them in.
Ruby is particularly useful for this task, since it has many gems which can parse common formats into a hash. Here are 3 quick examples with relevance to bioinformatics.
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