The growing interest in genomic research has caused an explosive growth in the size of DNA databases making it increasely challenging to perform searches on them. In this paper, w...
Zhenqiang Tan, Xia Cao, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. ...
Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic Informati...
This paper examines the problem of database organization and retrieval based on computing metric pairwise distances. A low-dimensional Euclidean approximation of a high-dimensiona...
For querying structured and semistructured data, data retrieval and document retrieval are two valuable and complementary techniques that have not yet been fully integrated. In thi...
Background: Most non-coding RNA families exert their function by means of a conserved, common secondary structure. The Rfam data base contains more than five hundred structurally ...