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Unified Data Model for Biological Data

Keywords: Unified Data Model, De-Oxyribonucleic Acid, Ribonucleic Acid,Protein Structures, Temporal Object Oriented System

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 33 ,  Issue 3

MUHAMMAD  IDREES,MUHAMMAD USMAN GHANI KHAN,ABAD SHAH  

Abstract

A data model empowers us to store, retrieve and manipulate data in a unified way. We consider the biological data consists of DNA (De-Oxyribonucleic Acid), RNA (Ribonucleic Acid) and protein structures. In our Bioinformatics Lab (Bioinformatics Lab, Alkhawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan), we have already proposed two data models for DNA and protein structures individually. In this paper, we propose a unified data model by using the data models of TOS (Temporal Object Oriented System) after making some necessary modifications to this data model and our already proposed the two data models. This proposed unified data model can be used for the modeling and maintaining the biological data (i.e. DNA, RNA and protein structures), in a single unified way