Background: The post-genomic era is characterised by a torrent of biological information flooding the public databases. As a direct consequence, similarity searches starting with ...
Anne Friedrich, Raymond Ripp, Nicolas Garnier, Emm...
Retrieving images from very large collections, using image content as a key, is becoming an important problem. Users prefer to ask for pictures using notions of content that are st...
David A. Forsyth, Jitendra Malik, Thomas K. Leung,...
Background: The process of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be widespread in Bacteria and Archaea, but little comparative data is available addressing its occurrence ...
Structured data including sets, sequences, trees and graphs, pose significant challenges to fundamental aspects of data management such as efficient storage, indexing, and simila...
Xiaohong Wang, Aaron M. Smalter, Jun Huan, Gerald ...
Background: Whole genome shotgun sequencing produces increasingly higher coverage of a genome with random sequence reads. Progressive whole genome assembly and eventual finishing ...
Qunfeng Dong, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Volker Brendel