Property Graph vs RDF Triple Store: A Comparison on Glycan Substructure Search.

ABSTRACT: Resource description framework (RDF) and Property Graph databases are emerging technologies that are used for storing graph-structured data. We compare these technologies through a molecular biology use case: glycan substructure search. Glycans are branched tree-like molecules composed of building blocks linked together by chemical bonds. The molecular structure of a glycan can be encoded into a direct acyclic graph where each node represents a building block and each edge serves as a chemical linkage between two building blocks. In this context, Graph databases are possible software solutions for storing glycan structures and Graph query languages, such as SPARQL and Cypher, can be used to perform a substructure search. Glycan substructure searching is an important feature for querying st

SUBMITTER: Alocci D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4684231 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature