In the last few years, XML became a de-facto standard for the exchange of structured and semi-structured data. The database research community took this development into account b...
Genome-wide association studies often incorporate information from public biological databases in order to provide a biological reference for interpreting the results. The dbSNP d...
Scott F. Saccone, Jiaxi Quan, Gaurang Mehta, Rapha...
Answering range queries is a common database operation. Methods based on hashing techniques to minimise the cost of answering range queries by taking the query distribution into a...
Salahadin Mohammed, Evan P. Harris, Kotagiri Ramam...
Background: Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are surviving traces of ancient retrovirus infections and now reside within the human DNA. Recently HERV expression has been dete...
Merja Oja, Jaakko Peltonen, Jonas Blomberg, Samuel...
A common problem in many types of databases is retrieving the most similar matches to a query object. Finding those matches in a large database can be too slow to be practical, es...