Background: High-density short oligonucleotide microarrays are a primary research tool for assessing global gene expression. Background noise on microarrays comprises a significan...
: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. The main issues regarding processing ROTs are correctness, data currency and performance. Two-phase Locking (2PL) protocol i...
: FASTER is a combinatorial optimization algorithm useful for finding low-energy side-chain configurations in side-chain placement and protein design calculations. We present two s...
Immortal DB is a transaction time database system that is built into a commercial database system rather than being layered on top. This enables it to have performance that is very...