These pages describe
OrChem, an Oracle chemistry plug-in using the
Chemistry Development Kit (CDK). The CDK is an open source Java library for Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics.
OrChem is maintained by the
chemoinformatics and metabolism team of the European Bioinformatics Institute.
Oracle Data cartridges extend the capabilities of the Oracle server. For
chemistry various commercial cartridges exist that facilitate
searching and analyzing chemical data. OrChem also provides
functionality like this, but is
not a cartridge. It doesn't need Oracle's
extensibility architecture because its Java components run as Java stored procedures inside the Oracle standard JVM (Aurora).
OrChem is suitable for Oracle 11G and onwards.
Starting with Oracle 11g release 1 (11.1) there is a just-in-time(
JIT)
compiler for Oracle JVM environment. A
JIT compiler for Oracle JVM
enables much faster execution because it manages the invalidation,
recompilation, and storage of code without an external mechanism. This
new Oracle feature makes Java classes perform better than before.
Author:
mark_rynbeek@users.sourceforge.net
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
Copyright © 2008,2009 EMBL/EBI.