For small genomes, it is possible to study genetic variation by assembling whole genomes and then comparing them via whole-genome comparison 6,7. For large genomes, such as the human genome, complete ...

Running battles in combat-centric role-playing games can be as painful as stepping on a caltrop. You're either depending on the Gamemaster to keep the entire scene in his or her head, or you're ...

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Move over Hadoop, there is another highly scalable data-processing powerhouse in town: Apache Giraph. Facebook is using the technology to bring a new style of search to its billion users. “Analyzing ...

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A new generation of graph databases has taken hold, and a generation of query languages has arrived alongside them. The assorted graph database query languages include the likes of Gremlin, Cypher, ...

The most stirring scene in the film Titanic is probably when the captain gives a two-hour screaming presentation on why it’s not his fault the ship is sinking, it’s actually everyone else’s fault.