Over the last decade the cost of producing genomic sequences has dropped dramatically due to the current so called “next-gen” sequencing methods. However, these next-gen seque...
In this paper we present a novel technique for nearest neighbor searching dubbed neighborhood approximation. The central idea is to divide the database into compact regions repres...
Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) is a shared disk RDBMS. We present a high level overview of the main architectural issues of OPS and their evolution throughout the releases of the Or...
Roger Bamford, D. Butler, Boris Klots, N. MacNaugh...
Beginning to create the New Oxford English Dictionary database has resulted in the realization that databases for reference texts are unlike those for conventional enterprises. Wh...
Background: The variety of DNA microarray formats and datasets presently available offers an unprecedented opportunity to perform insightful comparisons of heterogeneous data. Cro...