Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...
nd: A key abstraction in representing proteomics knowledge is the notion of unique identifiers for individual entities (e.g. proteins) and the massive graph of relationships among...
Andrew K. Smith, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Kevin Y. Yip, Mar...
Managing a combined store consisting of database data and file data in a robust and consistent manner is a challenge for database systems and content management systems. In such a...
Suparna Bhattacharya, C. Mohan, Karen Brannon, Ind...
Linear optimization queries retrieve the top-K tuples in a sliding window of a data stream that maximize/minimize the linearly weighted sums of certain attribute values. To effici...
Despite the recent proliferation of work on semistructured data models, there has been little work to date on supporting uncertainty in these models. In this paper, we propose a m...