WASPS: web-assisted symbolic plasmid synteny server

Evaluating Server - Assisted Cache

1 To reduce user-perceived latency in retrieving documents on the world wide web, a commonly used technique is caching both at the client's browser and more gainfully (due to sharing) at a proxy. The eeec-tiveness of Web caching hinges on the replacement policy that determines the relative value of caching diierent objects. An important component of such policy is to predict next-request times....

Improved server assisted signatures

It is well known that excessive computational demands of public key cryptography have made its use limited especially when constrained devices are of concern. To reduce the costs of generating public key signatures one viable method is to employ a third party; the server. In open networks, getting help from a verifiable-server has an advantage over proxy-based solutions since as opposed to prox...

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Synteny Portal: a web-based application portal for synteny block analysis

Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies and genome assembly algorithms have enabled the accumulation of a huge volume of genome sequences from various species. This has provided new opportunities for large-scale comparative genomics studies. Identifying and utilizing synteny blocks, which are genomic regions conserved among multiple species, is key to understanding genomic ar...

PlasMapper: a web server for drawing and auto-annotating plasmid maps

PlasMapper is a comprehensive web server that automatically generates and annotates high-quality circular plasmid maps. Taking only the plasmid/vector DNA sequence as input, PlasMapper uses sequence pattern matching and BLAST alignment to automatically identify and label common promoters, terminators, cloning sites, restriction sites, reporter genes, affinity tags, selectable marker genes, repl...