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?
donovan@hpindwa.HP.COM (Donovan Hsieh) (08/04/89)
/ hpindwa:comp.databases / beverly@ai.cs.wisc.edu (Beverly Seavey) / 10:06 am Aug 2, 1989 / > I'm looking for pointers into the literature on the use of > relational databases to store information on spatial configuration > of 3-dimensional objects. I have read several research papers addressing the issue of storing geometric data in the database system (not necessary relational model). The following two might be helpful for you : 1. An Analysis of Geometric Modeling in Database Systems Alfons Kemper & Mechtild Wallrath ACM Computing Surveys, Vol.19, No.1, March 1987 2. Modeling and manipulating Objects in Geoscientific Databases Udo W. Lipeck & Kari Neumann Entity-Relationship Approach S. Spaccapietra (Editor) Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland) @ ERI, 1987 Donovan Hsieh Hewlett-Packard Business Network Division