CCB Database

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The CCB Database Connecting
Remote Data to Distributed Tools
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Top Level Requirements

• Store experimental and computational results
• Point and click query interface
• Pipe query results to plugin tools
• Software portability

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What is a Database?

• Relational DBMS or Object Oriented?
• File systems
• Organized links to WWWeb
• Links to federated databases of the future

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What is the Data?

• 2D and 3D image files
• Time series recordings
• Experimental protocols
• Output from Simulations

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What are the Queries

• Select images or time series data by
• Functional attribute
• Experimental protocol
• Spatial overlap
• Dynamic Queries
• For stimuli that change over time what
• response patterns emerge?

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What are the Tools?

• 2D and 3D viewers
• Matlab
• Various Simulators and legacy applications

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The Schema
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Architecture of Neurosys
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Making a Query The GUI
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Heterogeneous data tools
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Conclusions

• Plug in tools
• Distributed tools
• Database Federation

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