Background: Homology is a key concept in both evolutionary biology and genomics. Detection of homology is crucial in fields like the functional annotation of protein sequences and...
Information extraction and integration from heterogeneous, autonomous data resources are major requirements for many spatial applications. Geospatial analysis for scientific disco...
Background: Genome-wide identification of specific oligonucleotides (oligos) is a computationallyintensive task and is a requirement for designing microarray probes, primers, and ...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
This paper discusses the structure and components of databases for real-world e-commerce systems. We first present an integrated 8-process value chain needed by the e-commerce sys...