Background: The Ensembl project produces updates to its comparative genomics resources with each of its several releases per year. During each release cycle approximately two week...
Jessica Severin, Kathryn Beal, Albert J. Vilella, ...
Background: There has been considerable effort focused on developing efficient programs for tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Many of these programs do not account f...
Christopher K. Edlund, Won H. Lee, Dalin Li, David...
PEIR, the Personal Environmental Impact Report, is a participatory sensing application that uses location data sampled from everyday mobile phones to calculate personalized estima...
Min Mun, Sasank Reddy, Katie Shilton, Nathan Yau, ...
MapReduce and stream processing are two emerging, but different, paradigms for analyzing, processing and making sense of large volumes of modern day data. While MapReduce offers t...
Background: High-throughput genome biological experiments yield large and multifaceted datasets that require flexible and user-friendly analysis tools to facilitate their interpre...