>lead to a open source application on the style of Oracle catridges >provided by Openeye, Chemaxon, MDLet al. (and CHORD)
This is definitely the way the "others" are moving as you pointed out. We (being the pharma company I work for) use cartridges a lot as this means that we are no longer dependent on any server side software. this way we do most of our structure manipulations using sql.
I don't know how they actually work only how to use it. Would it be possible to make a CDK cartridge that could be used for several database types?
>Another alternative approach would be to go via JDBC - but try and >specify a set of basic tables that would be useable as a basic >framework
>for storage of molecular data - if extra information is needed a user >could add his own tables.
Thats basically how the JChem library is working. The have a tool to generate the structure table to make sure it looks r ight, but the user can add columns to the structure table as well as create any other table of cause
claus
This is definitely the way the "others" are moving as you pointed out. We (being the pharma company I work for) use cartridges a lot as this means that we are no longer dependent on any server side software. this way we do most of our structure manipulations using sql.
I don't know how they actually work only how to use it. Would it be possible to make a CDK cartridge that could be used for several database types?
>Another alternative approach would be to go via JDBC - but try and >specify a set of basic tables that would be useable as a basic >framework
>for storage of molecular data - if extra information is needed a user >could add his own tables.
Thats basically how the JChem library is working. The have a tool to generate the structure table to make sure it looks r ight, but the user can add columns to the structure table as well as create any other table of cause
claus
