3 papers
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.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…