The use of on-line analytical processing approach in developing host-parasite database system / Nur Imtiazah Bt. Shuhaimi
Biodiversity is a very broad area to explore. The developments of research have resulted in increasing the number of biodiversity data in various formats. The ability of a database in dealing with biodiversity data is essential for the effective management and information dissemination process. T...
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2013
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| Summary: | Biodiversity is a very broad area to explore. The developments of research have resulted
in increasing the number of biodiversity data in various formats. The ability of a
database in dealing with biodiversity data is essential for the effective management and
information dissemination process. The capabilities of a database system rely on the
formula or approaches used in operating the system. The development of On-Line
Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology from time to time expands the use of this
approach which previously was dominated by the business field. The effectiveness of
structuring data into cube form technique allows data modeling and analysis in multidimensional
view has drawn the attention of researchers from a variety of other fields
and to adopt this method in producing a more conducive database system. The
efficiency of online analysis as well as information retrieval which can be manipulated
by the user in order to get the required information is seen as one of the factors making
OLAP approach very useful in building a database, particularly in biology. A few
existing biological databases that used the OLAP approach have been successful in
helping researchers to manage data as well as perform relevant analysis, for instance in
medical data management, gene expression and molecular sequence analysis. In this
study we used OLAP in developing a host-parasite database. This thesis describes the
process of parasite-host data collection, data digitization and data cleaning, followed by
the construction of relational database system using online analytical processing
approach. This system is named as Parasite Information Network System (PINS). PINS
PARASITE INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM (PINS)
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is designed and developed with the intention to help researchers manage data in order to
preserve valuable biodiversity information by documenting the data into database
storage structure. PINS is also aimed to assists researchers and students to obtain data
about parasites and hosts taxonomy, biology, geography or publication of data resources
information provided and use them in their studies. |
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