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NeuroQL: A Domain-Specific Query Language for Neuroscience Data

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Current Trends in Database Technology – EDBT 2006 (EDBT 2006)

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In this paper, we propose a domain-specific query language called NeuroQL for the neuroscience domain. NeuroQL is designed primarily for neuroinformatics database users and aims to enable users to directly interact with neuroscience databases in their professional concepts and terms with the help of a conceptual data model. NeuroQL is DBMS independent and can be translated into traditional query language such as SQL, OQL and XQuery. It integrates some object-oriented features, and supports neuron domain-specific data types and query operators, which can dynamically evolve when the underlying database schema evolves.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA

    Hao Tian, Rajshekhar Sunderraman, Hong Yang & Ying Zhu

  2. Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30302, USA

    Robert Calin-Jageman & Paul S. Katz

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  1. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Torsten Grust

  2. International University in Germany, Germany

    Hagen Höpfner

  3. University of the Basque Country,  

    Arantza Illarramendi

  4. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Stefan Jablonski

  5. Università di Milano, Italy

    Marco Mesiti

  6. University of Erlangen-Nurmberg, Germany

    Sascha Müller

  7. Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Oettingenstr. 67, 80538, München, Germany

    Paula-Lavinia Patranjan

  8. Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, TU Ilmenau

    Kai-Uwe Sattler

  9. Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany

    Myra Spiliopoulou

  10. Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium

    Jef Wijsen

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Tian, H., Sunderraman, R., Calin-Jageman, R., Yang, H., Zhu, Y., Katz, P.S. (2006). NeuroQL: A Domain-Specific Query Language for Neuroscience Data. In: Grust, T., et al. Current Trends in Database Technology – EDBT 2006. EDBT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11896548_46

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