(83) Protein Motif Knowledge-Base and Retriever Based on Quixote

(83) Protein Motif Knowledge-Base and Retriever Based on QUIXOTE

	Machine:     PIM
	Environment: PIMOS
	Language:    KL1
	Source Code: 280 KB
	Documents:   User's Manual (English/Japanese)

Overview

This system realizes a protein motif knowledge-base and its retriever using deductive object-oriented database language QUIXOTE.

Features

An application system of deductive object-oriented database language QUIXOTE.
The system deals with motif data contained by Prosite.
Motif relations are properly managed by module structure and attribute inheritance mechanism.

Function

Primary structure of protein is a sequence of amino acids, in which we can find some feature patterns called motifs. A motif is a meaningful unit which characterizes a protein in terms of its function. In this system, motif data obtained from world-wide database Prosite(Rel.9.0) are classified and organized in the framework of QUIXOTE. Each motif is represented as an object and a bunch of objects are managed as a module. Because relations among modules are explicitly described in QUIXOTE, we can efficiently retrieve some related motifs from a biological point of view.

FTP

Protein Motif Knowledge-Base and Retriever Based on QUIXOTE [772K]

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