Database technology

Alternative technologies should also be considered, and the reasons for not using them should be justifiable. For example, database technology is not the right choice if a task requires reasoning that goes beyond retrieval of stored data based on well-defined criteria. At the same time, many problems that are stated in a symboHc way can be formulated mathematically, and in fact can be better solved numerically. For such problems, knowledge-based systems are not the appropriate answer. 

Commercial LIMS appeared on the market in the early 1980s. These operated on then state-of-the-art minicomputers such as the 16-bit Hewlett-Packard 1000 and 32-bit Digital VAX system. By the late 1980s, several DOS-based PC LIMS operating on the primitive PC network were available. By the early 1990s, most LIMS started using commercial relational database technology and client/server systems, which operated on UNIX or the new Windows NT platform. The most advanced LIMS utilize server-based architecture to ensure system security and control. 

O Many drugs (i.e., early-stage compounds) - one genome [i.e., normative genome (database, technology platform)]... 

Clearly this is an arena in which computer database technology has a major role to play. Perhaps the best developed such database is COMAR (an index Code of Reference Materials). This database tries to provide an up-to-date way to locate CRMs from all around the world. The Central Secretariat is presently housed at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany. Further information is available at the COMAR website (http //www.comar.bam.de/). Nevertheless, this database is not restricted to ocean science applications (indeed... 

Embedding database technology into a CDS product brings with it three significant benefits ... 

Oracle and Access are two examples of relational database management systems. SAP , which has thonsands of tables, is an example of a large application that makes use of relational database technology. There are two other types of databases — hierarchical and network — but these are less common and generally limited to the mainframe world and will not be discussed here. This chapter will focus primarily on relational databases. 

Chair Computer Science 5 (Information Systems and Database Technology) Prof. Dr.rer.pol. Matthias Jarke Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen... 

Benigni, R., and Bossa, C. (2008). Structure alerts for carcinogenicity, and the Salmonella assay system A novel insight through the chemical relational databases technology. Mutat Res 659, 248-261. 

The chemical database technology described above is fragmented. Scientists had to know the details of several systems, some of which utilised dissimilar hardware, in order to utilise them for their research. The chemical/pharmaceutical industry needed and was asking for an integrated chemical-scientific database system that treated chemical and biological database needs and that adapted easily to their applications. ... 

In addition to the computer software and hardware trends that will impact chemical-scientific database systems in the future, trends in chemistry will also impact them. The disciplines of genetic engineering and polymer chemistry have special needs for chemical database technology, as do computational chemistry and patent applications. The chemical/pharmaceutical industry will enjoy important gains in productivity when these needs are better provided for. 

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