Spatial Genomics A merging field between geographic information system and genomic study. The idea of Spatial Genomics was initiated by Dr. Carol Bult . I had a opportunity to participate the First Workshop of Spatial Genomics in Bar Harbor, Maine. This is a graduate course of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The course intend to present some of the problems of distributed database system using genome databases as examples, to explore and implement possible solutions of interlinking distributed databases, distributed query process and query optimization.
Genome research is a extreme data-rich field.
Tremendous amount of genome databases have been built with different DBMS and even different data models. But on the other hand, all these databases are more and less in the same domain. This make it possible and necessary to interlink these databases and query them in a distributed fashion.