Query optimizers in current database systems are designed to pick a single efficient plan for a given query based on current statistical properties of the data. However, different...
Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jen...
Much information over the Internet is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information involves an operation of comparison and aggregation. In this paper, ...
Abstract-- Workflow systems have become increasingly popular for managing experiments where many bioinformatics tasks are chained together. Due to the large amount of data generate...
Olivier Biton, Sarah Cohen Boulakia, Susan B. Davi...
We have developed a system to process database queries over composed data providing web services. The queries are transformed into execution plans containing an operator that invok...
High-quality annotation of biological data is central to bioinformatics. Annotation using terms from ontologies provides reliable computational access to data. The Gene Ontology (...
Michael Bada, Daniele Turi, Robin McEntire, Robert...