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most citedAn expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

457 citations · 1.2k across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.DB2022

Federating and querying heterogeneous and distributed Web APIs and triple stores

Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Christophe Dessimoz, Aaron Ayllon Benitez +3

Today's international corporations such as BASF, a leading company in the crop protection industry, produce and consume more and more data that are often fragmented and accessible…

cs.DB2021★ 16 cited

Bio-SODA: Enabling Natural Language Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs without Training Data

Ana Claudia Sima, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Maria Anisimova +4

The problem of natural language processing over structured data has become a growing research field, both within the relational database and the Semantic Web community, with signif…

cs.CR2019

How Much Does GenoGuard Really "Guard"? An Empirical Analysis of Long-Term Security for Genomic Data

Bristena Oprisanu, Christophe Dessimoz, Emiliano De Cristofaro

Due to its hereditary nature, genomic data is not only linked to its owner but to that of close relatives as well. As a result, its sensitivity does not really degrade over time; i…

cs.DC2019

Parallel and Scalable Precise Clustering for Homologous Protein Discovery

Stuart Byma, Akash Dhasade, Adrian Altenhoff +2

This paper presents a new, parallel implementation of clustering and demonstrates its utility in greatly speeding up the process of identifying homologous proteins. Clustering is a…

cs.DB2019

VoIDext: Vocabulary and Patterns for Enhancing Interoperable Datasets with Virtual Links

Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Kurt Stockinger, Christophe Dessimoz

Semantic heterogeneity remains a problem when interoperating with data from sources of different scopes and knowledge domains. Causes for this challenge are context-specific requir…

q-bio.PE2019★ 15 cited

Orthology: definitions, inference, and impact on species phylogeny inference

Rosa Fernández, Toni Gabaldón, Christophe Dessimoz

Orthology is a central concept in evolutionary and comparative genomics, used to relate corresponding genes in different species. In particular, orthologs are needed to infer speci…