Querying genomic database by using a parallel logic programming system on distributed computing environment

Author

Matsuda, Hideo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan

fYear

1995

fDate

17-19 May 1995

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

336

Abstract

We have developed a genomic database system on a network of workstations. The efficient access to genomic databases is crucial, given the enormous increase in sequence data. By using a logic programming language, the system allows a user to perform adaptable data retrieval of integrated data objects in a single declarative framework. In addition by utilizing data-parallel processing, it provides efficient access to a large amount of genomic data in a distributed computing environment. We present the implementation of the database system and its performance by measuring processing times for querying molecular sequence data

Keywords

distributed databases; genetics; local area networks; logic programming languages; medical computing; medical information systems; parallel programming; performance evaluation; query processing; workstations; LAN; adaptable data retrieval; data objects; data-parallel processing; declarative framework; distributed computing environment; genomic data access; genomic database querying; genomic database system; logic programming language; molecular sequence data; parallel logic programming system; processing times measurement; sequence data; system performance; workstations network; Bioinformatics; Computer networks; Data engineering; Data mining; Database systems; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Engines; Genomics; Logic programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, 1995. Proceedings., IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2553-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1995.519537

Filename

519537