Prototyping a genetics deductive database

Technical Report · Fri Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:377141

Hearne, C; Cui, Zhan; Parsons, S; Hajnal, S ^[1]

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1. Advanced Computation Laboratory, London (United Kingdom)

We are developing a laboratory notebook system known as the Genetics Deductive Database. Currently our prototype provides storage for biological facts and rules with flexible access via an interactive graphical display. We have introduced a formal basis for the representation and reasoning necessary to order genome map data and handle the uncertainty inherent in biological data. We aim to support laboratory activities by introducing an experiment planner into our prototype. The Genetics Deductive Database is built using new database technology which provides an object-oriented conceptual model, a declarative rule language, and a procedural update language. This combination of features allows the implementation of consistency maintenance, automated reasoning, and data verification.

• Research Organization: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 377141
• Report Number(s): CONF-9408117--; CNN: Project 6333
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

55 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
BASIC STUDIES
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
ALGORITHMS
COMPUTER CODES
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
GENETIC MAPPING
KNOWLEDGE BASE
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
PROBABILITY
PROGRAMMING