Conducting bioinformatic analyses involves biologists in expressing requests over a range of highly heterogeneous information sources and software tools. Such activities are labor...
Norman W. Paton, Robert Stevens, Patricia G. Baker...
Background: Bioinformatics data analysis toolbox needs general-purpose, fast and easily interpretable preprocessing tools that perform data integration during exploratory data ana...
Scientists face an ever-increasing challenge in investigating biological systems with high throughput experimental methods such as mass spectrometry and gene arrays because of the...
Eric G. Stephan, Kyle R. Klicker, Mudita Singhal, ...
For speed and convenience, applications routinely cache XML data locally, and access it through standard parser (SAX) or tree (DOM) interfaces. When the source of this data is a r...
Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...