Information ubiquity has created a large crowd of users (most notably scientists), who could employ DBMS technology to process and share their data more effectively. Still, this ...
In this paper we suggest the requirements for an open platform designed for the description, distribution and analysis of genetic polymorphism data. This platform is discussed in ...
Similarity search in time series databases is an important research direction. Several methods have been proposed in order to provide algorithms for efficient query processing in t...
Maria Kontaki, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Yannis Mano...
There are many bioinformatics tools that deal with input/ output (I/O) issues by using filing systems from the most common operating systems, such as Linux or MS Windows. However, ...
Declustering and replication are well known techniques used to improve response time of queries in parallel disk environments. As data replication incurs a penalty for updates, da...