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BMCBI
2005
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13 years 7 months ago
PSI-BLAST-ISS: an intermediate sequence search tool for estimation of the position-specific alignment reliability
Background: Protein sequence alignments have become indispensable for virtually any evolutionary, structural or functional study involving proteins. Modern sequence search and com...
Mindaugas Margelevicius, Ceslovas Venclovas
VLDB
2001
ACM
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14 years 10 days ago
FeedbackBypass: A New Approach to Interactive Similarity Query Processing
In recent years, several methods have been proposed for implementing interactive similarity queries on multimedia databases. Common to all these methods is the idea to exploit use...
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Florian Waas
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Searching trajectories by locations: an efficiency study
Trajectory search has long been an attractive and challenging topic which blooms various interesting applications in spatial-temporal databases. In this work, we study a new probl...
Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yu Zhen...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
CUDA compatible GPU cards as efficient hardware accelerators for Smith-Waterman sequence alignment
Background: Searching for similarities in protein and DNA databases has become a routine procedure in Molecular Biology. The Smith-Waterman algorithm has been available for more t...
Svetlin Manavski, Giorgio Valle
NAR
1998
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13 years 7 months ago
The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database
The Protein Information Resource (PIR; http://wwwnbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/ ) supports research on molecular evolution, functional genomics, and computational biology by maintaining...
Winona C. Barker, John S. Garavelli, Daniel H. Haf...