With the exponential growth of biological sequence databases, it has become critical to develop effective techniques for storing, querying, and analyzing these massive data. Suffi...
Background: Biological data have traditionally been stored and made publicly available through a variety of on-line databases, whereas biological knowledge has traditionally been ...
Andreas Prlic, Marco A. Martinez, Dimitris Dimitro...
Background: DNA methylation plays an important role in development and tumorigenesis by epigenetic modification and silencing of critical genes. The development of PCR-based methy...
Filip Pattyn, Jasmien Hoebeeck, Piet Robbrecht, Ev...
k-Anonymity protects privacy by ensuring that data cannot be linked to a single individual. In a k-anonymous dataset, any identifying information occurs in at least k tuples. Much...
Mehmet Ercan Nergiz, Chris Clifton, A. Erhan Nergi...
Optimizing nested queries is an intricate problem. It becomes even harder if in a nested query the linking predicate or the correlation predicate occurs disjunctively. We present ...