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BMCBI
2011
14 years 5 months ago
PeakRanger: A cloud-enabled peak caller for ChIP-seq data
Background: Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), coupled with massively parallel short-read sequencing (seq) is used to probe chromatin dynamics. Although there are many algorith...
Xin Feng, Robert Grossman, Lincoln Stein
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Twitinfo: aggregating and visualizing microblogs for event exploration
Microblogs are a tremendous repository of user-generated content about world events. However, for people trying to understand events by querying services like Twitter, a chronolog...
Adam Marcus 0002, Michael S. Bernstein, Osama Bada...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
PhotoCity: training experts at large-scale image acquisition through a competitive game
Large-scale, ground-level urban imagery has recently developed as an important element of online mapping tools such as Google’s Street View. Such imagery is extremely valuable i...
Kathleen Tuite, Noah Snavely, Dun-yu Hsiao, Nadine...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing a phone broadcasting system for urban sex workers in India
In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and deployment of a phone-based broadcasting system designed for reaching out to at-risk populations in urban India. We worke...
Nithya Sambasivan, Julie Weber, Edward Cutrell
COMGEO
2011
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
What to do with 500M location requests a day?
Skyhook Wireless provides hybrid positioning to millions of mobile devices around the world. Using an approach that integrates cell, WiFi, and GPS signals, the system services ove...
Kipp Jones, Richard Sutton