As computer technologies start to permeate the everyday activities of a continuously growing population, social and technical as well as political and legal issues will surface. P...
Background: Understanding the community structure of microbes is typically accomplished by sequencing 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) genes. These community data can be represented b...
Background: Successful realization of a "systems biology" approach to analyzing cells is a grand challenge for our understanding of life. However, current modeling appro...
Linked open data (LOD), as provided by a quickly growing number of sources constitutes a wealth of easily accessible information. However, this data is not easy to understand. It i...
Over the last years the means to collect personal data implicitly or explicitly over the Web and by various kinds of sensors and to combine data for profiling individuals has dram...