Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) format is being used by a large number of scientific applications to store and disseminate their datasets. The provenance information, desc...
The explosion of data in the biological community demands the development of more scalable and flexible portals for bioinformatic computation. To address this need, we put forth c...
Rory Carmichael, Patrick Braga-Henebry, Douglas Th...
Background: The use of exogenous small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) for gene silencing has quickly become a widespread molecular tool providing a powerful means for gene functional s...
Jean-Philippe Vert, Nicolas Foveau, Christian Laja...
Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...