Data acquisition and cataloging are used to classify polypeptides into a reference index or database. The database can be used to identify previously unidentified samples. New polypeptides are characterized and added to the database.

A system and method for developing a pharmacovigilance database from source data and reference data. The unedited source data contains verbatim terms. The method includes parsing source data into a relational safety database; performing cleanup on the relational safety database; and mapping verbatim terms from the cleaned safety database to at least one token from at least one reference source. Cleanup includes removing redundant entries, correcting misspellings, removing irrelevant non-alpha ch...

A database system that accommodates any type of phenomenon or thing, with a simple table structure and an extremely small-scale program. Category identification information of the content to be registered, item names that represent an attribute and/or a function included in the category, and attributes of data representing the substantial contents of these items (item data attributes) are registered in each data cell of a data property table (21) in units of rows, and category identification inf...

Method for performing operations in a database system in which a plurality of data sets are stored into a storage of a computer, characterized by each data set consisting of an arbitrary number of fields, each consisting of a field description as metadata and an arbitrary number of field contents, and during each storage of a data set in a storage of a computer the field contents together with the corresponding metadata being stored as a data set.

An extensible database system is disclosed for storing data in a plurality of separate, lower-level databases. A top-level database is used to manipulate the data. The top-level database has a property dictionary file that stores the names of properties in the database system, along with references to their locations. An initial database system is created having a plurality of separate databases, each of which may store one or more fields, or properties. References to each of the initial databas...

A database migration system and method that provides continuous transaction service during migration. The invention allows minimal transaction service down time during database migration. The active database is copied to a target and updated at least one time. In one preferred embodiment, updating occurs over decreasing time intervals. When the time intervals become sufficiently short, transition to the target server is implemented by queuing transaction requests from the source server and then ...

A system and methods for rapid unloading and reorganization of heirarchical databases. Overflow and a window of blocks are progressively read into memory. Unloading proceeds as the scan cylinders window moves ahead. The reading of blocks stays about scan cylinders ahead of the unload. As a segment is unloaded, its space is converted to free IMS space and when appropriate, combined with adjacent free space already in the block. Thus about a window behind the unload point in the database, all of t...

A database contains an application program operative with data stored in a records data set (RDS) and a categories data set (CDS). The RDS contains an arbitrarily organized series of RDS entries, each having at least one data field configured for representing data. The CDS contains CDS entries configured for defining the schematic data types and data relationships of the RDS entries. Data is thus isolated from its definition, thereby permitting the underlying schematic form of the database to be...

A system and methods for rapid unloading and reorganization of hierarchical databases. Overflow and a window of blocks are progressively read into memory. Unloading proceeds as the scan cylinders window moves ahead. The reading of blocks stays about scan cylinders ahead of the unload. As a segment is unloaded, its space is converted to free IMS space and when appropriate, combined with adjacent free space already in the block. Thus about a window behind the unload point in the database, all of t...

An apparatus for making a musical database including a converting unit for converting musical information representing a music piece into note data items, each of note data items being a set of values associated with a period of a single sound denoted by a musical note and a scale level of the single sound denoted by the musical note, a position unit for producing position data items for the note data items, the position data items representing positions at which the note data items are position...