title: An approach in building a chemical compound search engine in oracle database.
abstract: A searching or identifying of chemical compounds is an important process in drug design and in chemistry research. An efficient search engine involves a close coupling of the search algorithm and database implementation. The database must process chemical structures, which demands the approaches to represent, store, and retrieve structures in a database system. In this paper, a general database framework for working as a chemical compound search engine in Oracle database is described. The framework is devoted to eliminate data type constrains for potential search algorithms, which is a crucial step toward building a domain specific query language on top of SQL. A search engine implementation based on the database framework is also demonstrated. The convenience of the implementation emphasizes the efficiency and simplicity of the framework.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Volarath
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Harrison