—With the proliferation of mobile devices in both smartphone and tablet form factors, it is intuitive and natural for users to socially interact with their collaborators or compe...
Background: Understanding how proteins fold is essential to our quest in discovering how life works at the molecular level. Current computation power enables researchers to produc...
Hong Sun, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Motonori Ota, Yus...
Background: In computer science, database systems are based on the relational model founded by Edgar Codd in 1970. On the other hand, in the area of biology the word 'databas...
Background: DNA methylation has been shown to play an important role in the silencing of tumor suppressor genes in various tumor types. In order to have a system-wide understandin...
We consider query optimization techniques for data intensive P2P applications. We show how to adapt an old technique from deductive databases, namely Query-Sub-Query (QSQ), to a s...