Combining expert discussion with examples that can be reproduced by the reader, this text introduces an array of informatics tools that are available for analyzing biological data and modeling cellular processes. You learn to fully leverage public databases and...

Are you ready to revolutionize the way you can work with data? This book shows you how to effectively utilize LINQ so that you can query XML, SQLdatabases, ADO.NET DataSets, and other data sources, and it also delvesdeeper into the technology to demonstrate how LINQ can dramatically improve your...

The 42 revised full papers presented together with 2 industrial application papers, 15 software demos, and 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected...

In Patterns in Network Architecture, pioneer John Day takes a unique approach to solving the problem of network architecture. Piercing the fog of history, he bridges the gap between our experience from the...

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Whether you're building GUI prototypes or full-fledged cross-platform GUI applications with native look-and-feel, PyQt 4 is your fastest, easiest, most powerful solution. Qt expert Mark Summerfield has written the definitive best-practice guide to PyQt 4...

Today’s business leaders agree that effectively managing and leveraging information to make decisions has never been more important. More than 60 percent of CEOs feel their organizations need to do better at leveraging their information (IBM® Attributes and Capabilities Study, 2005). CFOs feel that if they leverage their information...

Databases are growing tremendously. Because of legal requirements, or trend analysis, or need for historical data, terabytes of data are kept on-line causing performance and operational problems. Not all data is frequently accessed though, nor needs to be kept on fast media. Here archiving can help. Archiving is the process of moving selected...