Cancer is a complex disease caused by multiple factors including genetic mutations, and environmental factors. Cancer-associated proteins are potential biomarkers or targets for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in cancer. The Universal Protein Resourse (UniPort) is a well-annotated comprehensive resourse for protein sequence records. In th...

Cloud computing is a new computing model. The emergence and development of cloud computing have a great effect on the development and application of digital library. Based on the analysis of the problem in the existing digital library, a new digital library platform architecture model based on cloud computing is put forward. The model consists of four lays: infrastructure layer, data layer, man...

This essay provides a cohesive overview of the work I have undertaken during my first year as a research student at the University of Nottingham, funded jointly by the School of Computer Science & IT and the Department of Philosophy. Current research, including the compilation of this essay, is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). The essay is organised as follows. The first...