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DKE
2002
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13 years 10 months ago
A general strategy for decomposing topological invariants of spatial databases and an application
Topological invariants of spatial databases (i.e., finite structures that capture the topological properties of the database) are receiving increasing attention since they can act...
Serafino Cicerone, Daniele Frigioni, Paolino Di Fe...
BMCBI
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Faster Smith-Waterman database searches with inter-sequence SIMD parallelisation
Background: The Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment is more sensitive than heuristic methods for database searching, but also more time-consuming. The fastest ap...
Torbjørn Rognes
BMCBI
2004
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13 years 11 months ago
A SNP-centric database for the investigation of the human genome
Background: Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are an increasingly important tool for genetic and biomedical research. Although current genomic databases contain information o...
Alberto Riva, Isaac S. Kohane
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting shared correlations in probabilistic databases
There has been a recent surge in work in probabilistic databases, propelled in large part by the huge increase in noisy data sources -from sensor data, experimental data, data fro...
Prithviraj Sen, Amol Deshpande, Lise Getoor
ICFP
2003
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A user-centred approach to functions in Excel
We describe extensions to the Excel spreadsheet that integrate userdefined functions into the spreadsheet grid, rather than treating them as a "bolt-on". Our first objec...
Simon L. Peyton Jones, Alan F. Blackwell, Margaret...