A hardware and software architectural model for the manipulation of genetic databases

Author

Marshall, Roger G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Florida Inst. of Technol., Melbourne, FL, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

4-6 Dec 1991

Firstpage

176

Abstract

Summary form only given. The authors describe a hardware and software architectural model for the characterization and analysis of genomes of select organisms. The data for research is obtained by semantically relating existing heterogeneous genetic databases. The authors have developed an architectural model based on associative memory structures at the hardware level and an object-oriented model at the software level. Simulation studies are under way to establish the appropriateness of a system based on a set of tagged associative processors operating in parallel which can be used for gene sequencing and analysis. They have identified primitive instructions on the machine which are consonant with biologists´ map manipulation and usage requirements

Keywords

DNA; biology computing; content-addressable storage; distributed databases; object-oriented databases; parallel architectures; DNA sequence data; GDB; GenBank; associative memory structures; database manipulation hardware architecture; gene sequencing; genetic databases; genome database; genomes; heterogeneous databases; object-oriented model; software architectural model; tagged associative processors; Analytical models; Associative memory; Bioinformatics; Biological system modeling; Genetics; Genomics; Hardware; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Organisms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, 1991., Proceedings of the First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Miami Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2295-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PDIS.1991.183095

Filename

183095