A Genome Databases Framework

• Published in: Database and Expert Systems Applications Vol. 2113; pp. 319 - 329
• Main Authors: Seibel, Luiz Fernando Bessa, Lifschitz, Sérgio
• Format: Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2001; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Biological and medical sciences; Biology Application; Biology Data; Biology Model; Class Diagram; Computer science; control theory; systems; Exact sciences and technology; Framework Architecture; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Information systems. Data bases; Memory organisation. Data processing; Miscellaneous; Molecular and cellular biology; Molecular genetics; Software; Object oriented; Reuse; Database; Unified modelling language; Molecular biology; Genome; Data warehouse
• ISBN: 9783540425274; 3540425276
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44759-8_32

There are many Molecular Biology Databases, also known as Genome Databases, and there is a need for integrating all this data sources and related applications. This work proposes the use of an object-oriented framework for genome data access and manipulations. The framework approach is an interesting solution due to the flexibility, reusability and extensibility requirements of this application domain. We give a formal definition of our Genome Databases Framework using UML class diagrams, that explore the structural part of the architecture. A brief discussion on the Framework functionalities is also presented.