Issues in incorporation semantic integrity in molecular biological object-oriented databases
Issues critical to ensuring semantic integrity in molecular biological data collections have been identified and include complexity, exceptions, missing data, changing models, holism and integration, delocalized data, interoperability and nomenclature. This combination is peculiar to biology and pre...
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Published in | Bioinformatics Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 339 - 347 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Washington, DC
Oxford University Press
01.08.1995
Oxford |
Subjects | |
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Summary: | Issues critical to ensuring semantic integrity in molecular biological data collections have been identified and include complexity, exceptions, missing data, changing models, holism and integration, delocalized data, interoperability and nomenclature. This combination is peculiar to biology and presents some interesting problems as a result. Little is known about semantic checking in object-oriented databases in general, but because such technology appears highly suitable for modeling biological data, it is appropriate to examine the ways in which object-oriented technology can support this functionality. It is concluded that object-oriented technology will support semantic checking even in a complex domain like biology. We propose 10 guidelines for future work including ways of treating exceptional cases and ‘positioning’ of constraints in a schema. |
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Bibliography: | 2 Present address. Computing and Information Science. Queen's University, Kingston. Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada ark:/67375/HXZ-164B61L1-C ArticleID:11.4.339 istex:41B4EDB1920F5626562D64B8349B57C5AC36B968 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1367-4803 0266-7061 1460-2059 |
DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/11.4.339 |