Hi,

I have a a large dataset which has information in columns of the table of a protein name and a gene name. 
I would like to put it online on a public server in some way that is searchable by the scientific community by protein name and by gene name, and possibly links to other established databases such as UniProt. 

I saw that there is the possibility of using mySQL, but before diving into learning mySQL (which I am not sure how long it could take), I am curious about what the community of BiosStars suggest, in case there are faster alternatives. 

I code in R normally and I saw the R Shiny, could this be a good alternative to mySQL to build an online seacrhable database? What are the pros/cons from people's experiences?  
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/shiny/index.html

Thank you for your thoughts,
James
using [DT][1], creating a searchable table on the web, 

[shiny][2], building for a webserver, 

and [dplyr, interacting with mysql][3], will be a quick way.


  [1]: https://rstudio.github.io/DT/
  [2]: https://shiny.rstudio.com/
  [3]: https://beanumber.github.io/mysql-r-webinar/dplyr.html