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A Genome Databases Framework

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2001)

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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.

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Pontificia Universidade Católlica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Luiz Fernando Bessa Seibel & Sérgio Lifschitz

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  1. University of Klagenfurt, IFI -IWAS Universitaetsstr. 65, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Technicka 2, 166 27, Prague 6, Czech Republic

    Jiri Lazansky

  3. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus, Mawson Lakes, SA, 5095

    Gerald Quirchmayr

  4. Department of Information Systems, Technical University of Munich, Orleanstr. 34, 81667, Munich, Germany

    Pavel Vogel

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Seibel, L.F.B., Lifschitz, S. (2001). A Genome Databases Framework. In: Mayr, H.C., Lazansky, J., Quirchmayr, G., Vogel, P. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44759-8_32

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