Protein function database as a deductive and object-oriented database:

Abstract: "This paper describes an experiment on a knowledge base approach to molecular biological databases, especially focusing on a protein function database. Although there are many databanks of DNAs and proteins to support research in molecular biology, their integrated database is urgentl...

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Main Author: Tanaka, Hidetoshi (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tokyo, Japan 1991
Series:Shin-Sedai-Konpyūta-Gijutsu-Kaihatsu-Kikō <Tōkyō>: ICOT technical memorandum 1080
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Summary:Abstract: "This paper describes an experiment on a knowledge base approach to molecular biological databases, especially focusing on a protein function database. Although there are many databanks of DNAs and proteins to support research in molecular biology, their integrated database is urgently requested, because redundancies and gaps among them prevent effectiveness of such data and knowledge. For the integrated database, we take an approach to write various data and knowledge in a single knowledge representation language, QUIXOTE, which is designed at ICOT for deductive and object-oriented database (DOOD). As a protein function database is a typical one with complex data and inference rules, we start to describe it in QUIXOTE as a part of the integrated database
This paper describes motives for our experiments, status quo of biological database researches, features of QUIXOTE, the concept of a protein function database, examples of its representation in QUIXOTE, and evaluation.
Physical Description:6 S.