Safety, translation and evaluation of alignment calculus

  • Authors:
  • Gösta Grahne;Matti Nykänen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland;Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • ADBIS'97 Proceedings of the First East-European conference on Advances in Databases and Information systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

In this paper we pursue the study of Alignment Calculus, a declarative string database query language that supports both string querying and restructuring. This language is aimed for applications such as molecular biology databases, where the basic data type is a string, and the queries are combinatorial in nature. The declarative nature of our language does, however, require some additional effort in its implementation. Here we solve this problem by first defining a domain independent syntactic subset of the full language and then developing a query evaluation mechanism for this sublanguage. This mechanism then handles the required restructuring operations in a finite manner.