Integrated Environment for Protein Databases 

We developed an integrated protein database system on Kappa-P, and a 
graphic user interface (GUI) for using various protein databases at once. 

Purposes 

DBMS suitable for molecular biology 

Visualized and integrated protein database system 

One of the applications for evaluating Kappa-P 


Configuration 

Publicly distributed protein sequence (PIR), structure (PDB), and feature 
(ProSite) databases are stored in Kappa-P. A GUI providing an integrated 
environment for feature representation is employed to permit interactive query 
and answer through the remote procedure call (RPC) between Xwindows and 
Kappa-P. The motif search program is invoked from the GUI and runs in 
parallel as a filter in each local DBMS of Kappa-P.




Sequential DBMS



Kappa-P: Parallel DBMS

Query Processing of Kappa-P 


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