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With the rapid development of biotechnology, more and more genomic and associated functional data are available. It is necessary and possible for biologists and bioinformaticians to integrate various databases in order to mine biological knowledge.Moreover, the complexity of huge amount of biological data and their complicated structure need an advanced management system which can store and manage data efficiently, and provide subject-oriented analysis tools for further study. BiDMAP is a platform designed to meet these needs. The core of BiDMAP is based on an Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS) which makes it possible not only to store and manage biological data but also to implement analysis tools on a single platform. The goal of BiDMAP is to integrate different datasets on specific subjects into one platform and provides a unified, easy-to-learn, easy to-use interface to access those data. Complicated data structures are viewed as objects, stored in the database and manipulated viastandard SQL. BiDMAP presents an intuitive approach for biologists with little computational skills and leaves the flexibility for further development. This paper gives an overview of the design and implementation of BiDMAP and gives a simple analysis example - finding interleukin candidates with implemented analysis tool of pattern scan.