2. Oracle Spatial Network Data Model Overview Oracle Life Sciences User Group Meeting Susie Stephens Life Sciences Product Manager Oracle Corporation

3. What is a Network? A Network is a representation for modeling objects of interest and their relationships. It usually contains the following elements: Nodes: objects of interests Links: relationship between nodes Paths: an ordered list of connected links

4. What is Oracle Network Data Model? An open, generic and simple modeling and analysis platform for network applications Manage network information in the database Analyze network information in the client or application tier Includes support for spatial information Allows hierarchical modeling of networks

5. Network Modeling Map application features into network elements: nodes, links, and paths Analyze networks using network elements Map the analysis results back to application features

6. Network Analysis Shortest Path/All Paths Tracing (Accessibility) Within-Cost Nearest Neighbors Minimum Cost Spanning Tree Constraint Analysis (Depth, Cost, Distance, etc.)

7. Network Schema Network Metadata Name, Type, Node/Link/Path Table Information Network Tables Node Table – Node_ID, Node_Type, Geometry,… Link Table – Link_ID,Link_Type,Start_Node_ID,End_Node_ID, Cost, Geometry, … Path Table (Path-Link Table) – Path_ID, Start_Node_ID, End_Node_ID, Cost, Geometry, Path Links,…

8. Network APIs PL/SQL Package - Database Network Data Query and Management - Referential Integrity and Validation Java API - Network Loading/Storing - Network Analysis - Network Creation/Editing

9. Network Data Model Visualizer

10. Life Science Applications Biochemical Pathway Modeling Protein-Protein Interactions Semantic Data Integration Text Analysis

11. "Oracle 10g's Network Data Model feature is great for building a semantic work infrastructure. Oracle 10g's graphical representation is an excellent tool for planning our Y2H protein interaction data storage needs and for building a signaling network from our Nature-AfCS Molecule Pages Database." - Joshua Li, Sr. Computational Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center / UCSD "Beyond Genomics, Inc., as a leading systems biology company, believes that Oracle 10g's Network Data Model will significantly advance the integration of metabolomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, and clinical data sets and the applications that derive value from these data." – Eric Neumann, Vice President Strategic Informatics, Beyond Genomics, Inc.