Background: Protein function is often dependent on subsets of solvent-exposed residues that may exist in a similar three-dimensional configuration in non homologous proteins thus ...
— Skyline queries are capable of retrieving interesting points from a large data set according to multiple criteria. Most work on skyline queries so far has assumed a centralized...
Bin Cui, Hua Lu, Quanqing Xu, Lijiang Chen, Yafei ...
Background: The rapid development of structural genomics has resulted in many "unknown function" proteins being deposited in Protein Data Bank (PDB), thus, the functiona...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems such as Gnutella and KaZaa are routinely used by millions of people for sharing music and many other files over the Internet, and they account for a si...
Query performance issues over semi-structured data have led to the emergence of materialised XML views as a means of restricting the data structure processed by a query. However p...