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An object-oriented database system is being developed, which is used to store protein three-dimensional structure data. Proteins from Brookhaven's Protein Data Bank (PDB) axe classified by their enzyme code numbers and each protein is represented as a composite object. The system provides a number of methods to avoid writing lengthy Object-SQL (OSQL) statements for complex queries. Furthermore, fixed views are also provided to achieve efficient query processing.
We would like to thank Prof. M. Kusunoki at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan, for his helpful advice on our database. We also thank K. Katano, M. Yoshida and A. Chimura in our research group for writing elegant C++ code.
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Nakanishi, M., Ito, M., Hashimoto, A. (1994). An object-oriented database of protein structure data. In: Litwin, W., Risch, T. (eds) Applications of Databases. ADB 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 819. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58183-9_58
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