A HIERARCHICAL DATABASE DESIGN AND SEARCH METHOD FOR CODIS
J.D. Birdwell, R. D. Horn, D. J. Icove, T. W. Wang, Pramod Kumar Yadav, Sue L. Niezgoda · 2000
A new search engine for the FBI CODIS DNA database is under development. The search engine utilizes a hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel computer architecture, allowing scale up past the current feasible limit of approximately 10 DNA profiles. The goal of this project is to support up to 10 DNA profiles in the FBI CODIS DNA database while servicing 10 10 search requests per hour. The search engine is being designed as a back-end component of the existing CODIS system to avoid significant changes to the user interface and modes of use.