Keyword search in relational databases has been widely studied in recent years. Most of the previous studies focus on how to answer an instant keyword query. In this paper, we focu...
Similarity searching in text databases with multiple field types is still an open problem. We experimented with CORDIS and we evaluated the effectiveness of many text retrieval me...
Background: A fundamental problem when trying to define the functional relationships between proteins is the difficulty in quantifying functional similarities, even when well-stru...
Angela del Pozo, Florencio Pazos, Alfonso Valencia
Background: Detecting homology between remotely related protein families is an important problem in computational biology since the biological properties of uncharacterized protei...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...