Background: Assignment of function to new molecular sequence data is an essential step in genomics projects. The usual process involves similarity searches of a given sequence aga...
Liisa B. Koski, Michael W. Gray, B. Franz Lang, Ge...
The bit-sliced index (BSI) was originally defined in [ONQ97]. The current paper introduces the concept of BSI arithmetic. For any two BSI's X and Y on a table T, we show how ...
Denis Rinfret, Patrick E. O'Neil, Elizabeth J. O'N...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Background: The Cell Ontology (CL) is an ontology for the representation of in vivo cell types. As biological ontologies such as the CL grow in complexity, they become increasingl...
Terrence F. Meehan, Anna Maria Masci, Amina Abdull...
Background: PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assay is a cost-effective method for SNP genotyping and mutation detection, but the manual mining for restriction e...