Although there are several extant studies of parallel scientific application request patterns, there is little experimental data on the correlation of physical I/O patterns with application I/O stimuli. To understand these ...

A baseline crawler was developed at the Bilkent University based on a focused-crawling approach. The focused crawler is an agent that targets a particular topic and visits and gathers only a relevant, narrow Web segment ...

Predicting or learning numeric features is called regression in the statistical literature, and it is the subject of research in both machine learning and statistics. This paper reviews the important techniques and algorithms ...

By allowing anonymous Net communication, the fabric of our society is at risk.

Nanopore sequencing technology has the potential to render other sequencing technologies obsolete with its ability to generate long reads and provide portability. However, high error rates of the technology pose a challenge ...

The Disease Maps Project builds on a network of scientific and clinical groups that exchange best practices, share information and develop systems biomedicine tools. The project aims for an integrated, highly curated and ...

Aligning sequencing reads onto a reference is an essential step of the majority of genomic analysis pipelines. Computational algorithms for read alignment have evolved in accordance with technological advances, leading to ...

The Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN) is an international community effort that aims to standardise the visualisation of pathways and networks for readers with diverse scientific backgrounds as well as to support ...

This is a brief reply to Herbert A. Simon's fine paper "Literary Criticism: A Cognitive Approach'', Stanford Humanties Review, Special Supplement ("Bridging the Gap'' Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism), vol. ...