Motivation: High-throughput expression profiling allows researchers to study gene activities globally. Genes with similar expression profiles are likely to encode proteins that ma...
With an ever growing complexity and data volume, the administration of today's relational database management systems has become one of the most important cost factors in thei...
Today, more and more enterprises process XML data, many of them already in XML database systems. Once systems start to grow in size, scalability becomes an issue. One of the core o...
Curated databases represent a substantial amount of effort by a dedicated group of people to produce a definitive description of some subject area. The value of curated databases ...
A logical database schema, e.g. a relational one, is an implementation of a speci cation, e.g. an entity-relationship diagram. Upcoming new data models and the necessity of seamle...