Based on the important progresses made in information retrieval (IR) in terms of theoretical models and evaluations, more and more attention has recently been paid to the research...
Background: Databases containing very large amounts of SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) data are now freely available for researchers interested in medical and/or population g...
Background: Accurate estimation of statistical significance of a pairwise alignment is an important problem in sequence comparison. Recently, a comparative study of pairwise stati...
Recent growth of social classification systems due to steadily increasing popularity has established a multitude of heterogeneous isolated, non-integrated, and non-interoperable t...
In social media, such as blogs, since the content naturally evolves over time, it is hard or in many cases impossible to organize the content for effective navigation. Thus, one c...