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BMCBI
2008
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VariVis: a visualisation toolkit for variation databases
Background: With the completion of the Human Genome Project and recent advancements in mutation detection technologies, the volume of data available on genetic variations has rise...
Timothy D. Smith, Richard G. H. Cotton
BMCBI
2007
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PepBank - a database of peptides based on sequence text mining and public peptide data sources
Background: Peptides are important molecules with diverse biological functions and biomedical uses. To date, there does not exist a single, searchable archive for peptide sequence...
Timur Shtatland, Daniel Guettler, Misha Kossodo, M...
BMCBI
2008
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SPSmart: adapting population based SNP genotype databases for fast and comprehensive web access
Background: In the last five years large online resources of human variability have appeared, notably HapMap, Perlegen and the CEPH foundation. These databases of genotypes with p...
Jorge Amigo, Antonio Salas, Christopher Phillips, ...
BMCBI
2008
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SciDBMaker: new software for computer-aided design of specialized biological databases
Background: The exponential growth of research in molecular biology has brought concomitant proliferation of databases for stocking its findings. A variety of protein sequence dat...
Riadh Hammami, Abdelmajid Zouhir, Karim Naghmouchi...
BMCBI
2010
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Consistency, comprehensiveness, and compatibility of pathway databases
Background: It is necessary to analyze microarray experiments together with biological information to make better biological inferences. We investigate the adequacy of current bio...
Donny Soh, Difeng Dong, Yike Guo, Limsoon Wong
BIODATAMINING
2008
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Search extension transforms Wiki into a relational system: A case for flavonoid metabolite database
Background: In computer science, database systems are based on the relational model founded by Edgar Codd in 1970. On the other hand, in the area of biology the word 'databas...
Masanori Arita, Kazuhiro Suwa
BIB
2008
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Biodiversity informatics: the challenge of linking data and the role of shared identifiers
A major challenge facing biodiversity informatics is integrating data stored in widely distributed databases. Initial efforts have relied on taxonomic names as the shared identifi...
Roderic D. M. Page
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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Adaptive indexing for relational keys
: © Adaptive indexing for relational keys Goetz Graefe, Harumi Kuno HP Laboratories HPL-2010-23 databases, indexes, storage systems, B-trees, adaptive merging, database cracking A...
Goetz Graefe, Harumi A. Kuno
ECAI
2010
Springer
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Extraction of Places Related to Flickr Tags
Geographic information systems use databases to map keywords to places. These databases are currently most often created by using a top-down approach based on the geographic defini...
Yukino Baba, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Shinichi Honiden
CIDR
2009
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The Case for RodentStore: An Adaptive, Declarative Storage System
Recent excitement in the database community surrounding new applications--analytic, scientific, graph, geospatial, etc.--has led to an explosion in research on database storage sy...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Eugene Wu, Samuel M...