Constituting a receptor-ligand information base from quality-enriched data
- GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt (Germany)
Many different resources are needed for analyzing relevant experimental data in drug design. Currently this data is difficult to access, because it is stored in heterogeneous data-bases, spread over many platforms, poorly interconnected, incomplete, erroneous, or just not electronically available. In order to establish a high quality database for drug design we have developed a new demand-driven methodology for integrating and semantically enriching heterogeneous data from different research areas and for migrating the data into an object-oriented database management system. In this way we have established a database containing well-prepared, relevant data needed for drug design and offering the advantages of modern database technology, like a comprehensive object-oriented data model, a flexible declarative query language and support for persistent storage and sharing of data in a multi-user environment.
- Research Organization:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 401843
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9507246--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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