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BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
VariVis: a visualisation toolkit for variation databases
Background: With the completion of the Human Genome Project and recent advancements in mutation detection technologies, the volume of data available on genetic variations has rise...
Timothy D. Smith, Richard G. H. Cotton
MST
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
A Simple and Efficient Parallel Disk Mergesort
External sorting--the process of sorting a file that is too large to fit into the computer's internal memory and must be stored externally on disks--is a fundamental subroutin...
Rakesh D. Barve, Jeffrey Scott Vitter
TOCHI
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
Using Metalevel Techniques in a Flexible Toolkit for CSCW Applications
Ideally, software toolkits for collaborative applications should provide generic, reusable components, applicable in a wide range of circumstances, which software developers can as...
Paul Dourish
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
161views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 7 months ago
Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu
MM
1997
ACM
131views Multimedia» more  MM 1997»
13 years 11 months ago
Continuous Display Using Heterogeneous Disk-Subsystems
A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a larg...
Roger Zimmermann, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh