beverly@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Beverly Seavey) (08/03/89)
I'm looking for pointers into the literature on the use of relational databases to store information on spatial configuration of 3-dimensional objects. Word from one of the retrograde fuddy-duddies of the biological database world is that it is "impossible". I take this to mean that there is probably some very neat work being done in this area, but it isn't being done in Basic, FOTRAN, or Wordstar. :-) The objects that we want to store info on are proteins in 3R. They may be considered to be connected jointed segments with between 20 and ~200 segments. Any pointers?