Background: We present a novel method to encode ambiguously aligned regions in fixed multiple sequence alignments by ‘Pairwise Identity and Cost Scores Ordination’ (PICS-Ord)....
Robert K. Luecking, Brendan P. Hodkinson, Alexandr...
A discrete distribution D over Σ1 × · · · × Σn is called (non-uniform) k-wise independent if for any set of k indexes {i1, . . . , ik} and for any z1 ∈ Σi1 , . . . , zk ...
Management and analysis of streaming data has become crucial with its applications in web, sensor data, network traffic data, and stock market. Data streams consist of mostly nume...
—As Cloud Computing becomes prevalent, more and more sensitive information are being centralized into the cloud. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data usually have t...
Jin Li, Qian Wang, Cong Wang, Ning Cao, Kui Ren, W...
Abstract—The high repair cost of (n;k) Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) erasure codes has recently motivated a new class of MDS codes, called Repair MDS codes, that can signific...