Background: Genome sequences vary strongly in their repetitiveness and the causes for this are still debated. Here we propose a novel measure of genome repetitiveness, the index o...
Background: Metal-containing proteins comprise a diverse and sizable category within the proteomes of organisms, ranging from proteins that use metals to catalyze reactions to pro...
W. Andrew Lancaster, Jeremy L. Praissman, Farris L...
Data replication is an excellent technique to move and cache data close to users. By replication, data access performance can be improved dramatically. One of the challenges in da...
In recent years, different commercial Weblog subscribing systems have been proposed to return stories from users' subscribed feeds. In this paper, we propose a novel clusteri...
Xin Li, Jun Yan, Zhi-Hong Deng, Lei Ji, Weiguo Fan...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...