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ArticleBiotech (Basel (Switzerland))2022

Bio-Strings: A Relational Database Data-Type for Dealing with Large Biosequences.

Sergio Lifschitz, Edward H Haeusler, Marcos Catanho, Antonio B de Miranda, Elvismary Molina de Armas, Alexandre Heine, Sergio G M P Moreira, Cristian Tristão

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Article in Biotech (Basel (Switzerland)), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Sergio LifschitzDepartamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro 22451-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-3073-3734
Edward H HaeuslerDepartamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro 22451-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-4999-7476
Marcos CatanhoLab. Genética Molecular de Microrganismos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, Brazil.
Antonio B de MirandaLab. Genética Molecular de Microrganismos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, Brazil.
Elvismary Molina de ArmasDepartamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro 22451-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-0606-5994
Alexandre HeineDepartamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro 22451-900, Brazil.
Sergio G M P MoreiraDepartamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro 22451-900, Brazil.
Cristian TristãoDepartamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro 22451-900, Brazil.

Funding

Coordenação de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Institutional Grant
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA sequencers output a large set of very long biological data strings that we should persist in databases rather than basic text file systems. Many different data models and database management systems (DBMS) may deal with both storage and efficiency issues regarding genomic datasets. Specifically, there is a need for handling strings with variable sizes while keeping their biological meaning. Relational database management systems (RDBMS) provide several data types that could be further explored for the genomics context. Besides, they enforce integrity, consistency, and enable good abstractions for more conventional data. We propose the relational text data type to represent and manipulate biological sequences and their derivatives. We present a logical schema for representing the core biological information, which may be inferred from a given biological conceptual data schema and the corresponding function manipulations. We implement and evaluate these stored functions into an actual RDBMS for both efficacy and efficiency. We show that it is possible to enforce basic and complex requirements for the genomic domain. We claim that the well-established relational text data type in RDBMS may appropriately handle the representation and persistency of biological sequences. We base our approach on the idea of domain-specific abstract data types that can store data with semantically defined functions while hiding those details from non-technical end-users.

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biological sequencesrelational databasesstored functionsstring type

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PMID35997339
PMCPMC9472027

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