Until recently, genomics has concentrated on comparing sequences between species.
However, due to the sharply falling cost of sequencing technology, studies of populations of …

Property preserving encryption techniques have significantly advanced the utility of
encrypted data in various data outsourcing settings (eg, the cloud). However, while …

String similarity search is required by many real-life applications, such as spell checking,
data cleansing, fuzzy keyword search, or comparison of DNA sequences. Given a very large …

Over the past decade, genomic data has grown exponentially and is widely used in
promising medical and health-related applications, which opens up new opportunities for …

Genomic data is being produced rapidly by both individuals and enterprises and needs to
be outsourced from local machines to a cloud for better flexibility. Outsourcing also …

Given a large collection of tree-structured objects (eg, XML documents), the similarity join
finds the pairs of objects that are similar to each other, based on a similarity threshold and a …

A topic of growing interest in a wide range of domains is the similarity of data entries. Data
sets of genome sequences, text corpora, complex production information, and multimedia …

Recent years have brought rising interest in efficiently searching for similar entities in a
broad range of domains. Such search can be used to facilitate working with unstructured …

The popularity of the cloud storage space mainly attracted organizations to store their data in
them. Therefore, the avoidance of duplicate data contents is unavoidable and several users …

This chapter introduces an efficient and privacy-preserving similar patient query (SPQ)
scheme over genomic data. Given a genome collected from a new patient, the scheme can …