Abstract-- The trans-genomic query (TGQ) problem -- enabling the free query of biological information, even across genomes -- is a central challenge facing bioinformatics. Solution...
Douglas Stott Parker Jr., Ruey-Lung Hsiao, Yi Xing...
Background: It is a major challenge of computational biology to provide a comprehensive functional classification of all known proteins. Most existing methods seek recurrent patte...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...