The present volume is dedicated to aspects of algorithmic work in bioinformat ics and computational biology with an emphasis on string algorithms that play a central role in the analysis of biological sequences. The papers included are a selection of articles corresponding to talks given at one of two meetings spon sored by The Royal...

Scientists in the throes of research use an extensive data bank to access structural information on proteins and nucleic acids. Meanwhile, geneticists use a highly specialized form of software to analyze the hybridization pattern of DNA chips. The past decade has been tremendously successful for biotechnology and pharmaceutical...

Welcome to the Microsoft Official Academic Course (MOAC) program for Windows Server Administration Fundamentals. MOAC represents the collaboration between Microsoft Learning and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publishing company. Microsoft and Wiley teamed up to produce a series of textbooks that deliver compelling and innovative teaching...

Bioinformatics is an emerging field in which statistical and computational techniques are used extensively to analyze and interpret biological data obtained from high-throughput genomic technologies. Genomic technologies allow us to monitor thousands of biological processes going on inside living organisms in one snapshot, and are...

This book contains selected research results on non-traditional database systems from Japanese database research community. In traditional database research, the main emphases is how to process a large amount of fixed structured data with minimum amount of selected resources (processing time, communication overhead, memory size,...

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Grid Computing was a vision of using and sharing computers and data in the early 1990s. The integration, coordination, and sharing of computer resources which are geographically disperse among different physical domains and organizations became an every day reality. This emerging infrastructure aims to provide a mechanism for sharing...

A wide spectrum of research areas have contributed to the development of objectoriented analysis and design methods. Within computing sciences objectorientation has been developed in the fields of databases, programming languages, and system engineering. Some indications of this development include the proliferation of objectoriented...

Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Azure are two sizeable platforms unto themselves. SharePoint is one of Microsoft’s leading server productivity platforms—a collaborative platform for the enterprise and the web. Windows Azure is Microsoft’s operating system in the cloud. Separately, they have their own strengths, market...

The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of educational data mining (EDM). The primary goal of EDM is to use large-scale educational data sets to better understand learning and to provide information about the learning process. Although researchers have been studying human learning for over a...

This book provides detailed recipes that describe how to use the features of Cassandra and improve its performance. Recipes cover topics ranging from setting up Cassandra...