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most citedAlignment-free Genomic Analysis via a Big Data Spark Platform

12 citations · 12 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.DC2024

A Distributed Approach for Persistent Homology Computation on a Large Scale

Riccardo Ceccaroni, Lorenzo Di Rocco, Umberto Ferraro Petrillo +1

Persistent homology (PH) is a powerful mathematical method to automatically extract relevant insights from images, such as those obtained by high-resolution imaging devices like el…

q-bio.GN2021

The Power of Word-Frequency Based Alignment-Free Functions: a Comprehensive Large-scale Experimental Analysis -- Version 3

Giuseppe Cattaneo, Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Raffaele Giancarlo +2

Motivation: Alignment-free (AF) distance/similarity functions are a key tool for sequence analysis. Experimental studies on real datasets abound and, to some extent, there are also…

cs.DC2020

FASTA/Q Data Compressors for MapReduce-Hadoop Genomics:Space and Time Savings Made Easy -- Version 1

Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Francesco Palini, Giuseppe Cattaneo +1

Motivation: Storage of genomic data is a major cost for the Life Sciences, effectively addressed mostly via specialized data compression methods. For the same reasons of abundance…

cs.DC2020★ 12 cited

Alignment-free Genomic Analysis via a Big Data Spark Platform

Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Francesco Palini, Giuseppe Cattaneo +1

Motivation: Alignment-free distance and similarity functions (AF functions, for short) are a well established alternative to two and multiple sequence alignments for many genomic,…

cs.CR2015

Using HTML5 to Prevent Detection of Drive-by-Download Web Malware

Alfredo De Santis, Giancarlo De Maio, Umberto Ferraro Petrillo

The web is experiencing an explosive growth in the last years. New technologies are introduced at a very fast-pace with the aim of narrowing the gap between web-based applications…