Symbolic and spatial database for structural biology

Dan Benson, Greg Zick
1991 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications - OOPSLA '91  
This paper describes the development of a database to support three-dimensional image reconstruction of structural biology using objectoriented technology. The requirements of this system encompass many of the popular justifications for the application of object-oriented technology, such as non-standard data types and complex composite data, but we also find advantage in the increased functionality obtained for spatial relationship operations and access methods. We focus attention on the
more » ... ntation of the spatial data, its representation, operations, indexing, and queries.
doi:10.1145/117954.117979 dblp:conf/oopsla/BensonZ91 fatcat:wz4j3qwgl5dldlnfvxf2vknaki