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BMCBI
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Metrics for GO based protein semantic similarity: a systematic evaluation
Background: Several semantic similarity measures have been applied to gene products annotated with Gene Ontology terms, providing a basis for their functional comparison. However,...
Catia Pesquita, Daniel Faria, Hugo P. Bastos, Ant&...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Hyperspaces for Object Clustering and Approximate Matching in Peer-to-Peer Overlays
Existing distributed hash tables provide efficient mechanisms for storing and retrieving a data item based on an exact key, but are unsuitable when the search key is similar, but ...
Bernard Wong, Ymir Vigfusson, Emin Gün Sirer
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
196views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 10 months ago
Connected substructure similarity search
Substructure similarity search is to retrieve graphs that approximately contain a given query graph. It has many applications, e.g., detecting similar functions among chemical com...
Haichuan Shang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Jeffrey Xu...
TAMC
2009
Springer
16 years 21 days ago
Approximability and Fixed-Parameter Tractability for the Exemplar Genomic Distance Problems
In this paper, we present a survey of the approximability and fixed-parameter tractability results for some Exemplar Genomic Distance problems. We mainly focus on three problems: ...
Binhai Zhu
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
228views Database» more  SIGMOD 2010»
15 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic string similarity joins
Edit distance based string similarity join is a fundamental operator in string databases. Increasingly, many applications in data cleaning, data integration, and scientific compu...
Jeffrey Jestes, Feifei Li, Zhepeng Yan, Ke Yi