Background: The most renowned biological ontology, Gene Ontology (GO) is widely used for annotations of genes and gene products of different organisms. However, there are shortcom...
Queries issued by casual users or specialists exploring a data set often point us to important subsets of the data, be it clusters, outliers or other features of particular import...
We state and solve the query reformulation problem for XML publishing in a general setting that allows mixed (XML and relational) storage for the proprietary data and exploits redu...
Multiple sequence alignment represents a class of powerful bioinformatics tools with many uses in computational biology ranging from discovery of characteristic motifs and conserv...
Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...