Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar ...
Background: DNA microarrays have become a nearly ubiquitous tool for the study of human disease, and nowhere is this more true than in cancer. With hundreds of studies and thousan...
Fenglong Liu, Joseph White, Corina Antonescu, John...
— Massive data analysis on large clusters presents new opportunities and challenges for query optimization. Data partitioning is crucial to performance in this environment. Howev...
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a vision of future Information Society, where people are surrounded by an electronic environment which is sensitive to their needs, personalized to th...
Many software applications have a component based on database management systems in which information is generally handled through SQL queries embedded in the application code. Wh...