title: A relational database application in support of integrated neuroscience research.
abstract: The development of relational databases has significantly improved the performance of storage, search, and retrieval functions and has made it possible for applications that perform real-time data acquisition and analysis to interact with these types of databases. The purpose of this research was to develop a user interface for interaction between a data acquisition and analysis application and a relational database using the Oracle9i system. The overall system was designed to have an indexing capability that threads into the data acquisition and analysis programs. Tables were designed and relations within the database for indexing the files and information contained within the files were established. The system provides retrieval capabilities over a broad range of media, including analog, event, and video data types. The system's ability to interact with a data capturing program at the time of the experiment to create both multimedia files as well as the meta-data entries in the relational database avoids manual entries in the database and ensures data integrity and completeness for further interaction with the data by analysis applications.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Neural & Intelligent Systems, Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College of City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11210, USA. rudowsky@brooklyn.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Ira
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rudowsky
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kulyba
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kunin
authors.forename: Dmitri
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ogarodnikov
authors.forename: Theodore
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Raphan
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000295:instrumentation; D016208:Databases, Factual; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods*