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bdbms - A Database Management System for Biological Data

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bdbms - A Database Management System for Biological Data
Biologists are increasingly using databases for storing and managing their data. Biological databases typically consist of a mixture of raw data, metadata, sequences, annotations, and related data obtained from various sources. Current database technology lacks several functionalities that are needed by biological databases. In this paper, we introduce bdbms, an extensible prototype database management system for supporting biological data. bdbms extends the functionalities of current DBMSs with: (1) Annotation and provenance management including storage, indexing, manipulation, and querying of annotation and provenance as first class objects in bdbms, (2) Local dependency tracking to track the dependencies and derivations among data items, (3) Update authorization to support data curation via content-based authorization, in contrast to identity-based authorization, and (4) New access methods and their supporting operators that support pattern matching on various types of compressed ...
Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where CIDR
Authors Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref
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