Use and Maintenance of Histograms for Large Scientific Database Access Planning: A Case Study of a Pharmaceutical Data Repository

摘要

Scientific databases, and in particular chemical and biological databases, have reached massive sizes in recent years due to the improvement of bench-side high throughput screening tools used by scientists. This rapid increase has caused a shift in the bottleneck in discovery and product development from the bench side to the computational side, thus, creating a need for new computational tools that can facilitate the access and interpretation of such massive data.