Genomic Database Questions

• What is a gene and what is it made of?
• What is computational biology?
• What does NCBI stand for and what main genomic database does it contain?
• What does BLAST stand for and what does it do?
• What is Entrez?
• What are the two things you can search GenBank for?

Geographical Information Systems

Questions

1. Name one real world use for a GIS (Geographical Information System)?
2. What is the difference between vector and raster data?
3. Each layer of Geographical data must be accurately placed according to their .
4. Name one method for acquiring Geographical data.
5. What is the standards organization for GIS (Geographical Information System)?
1. Globally Open Geography
2. Open Geospatial Consortium
3. Open Geographical Standards
4. Association for Global systems standards

Mayo Group projects still needed

I am missing one of the group projects. We need this in order to fulfill our group assignment as well as providing feedback to each group about their instructions and their UI.

This Week's Mayo Project

http://cs.winona.edu/faculty/nanderson/485-s10/UIAssignment3.pdf

Virtualization Questions

What is Virtualization?

What are the main advantages to virtualization?

Where did virtualization get its start?

What are some of the drawbacks?

What is database virtualization?

Why is it useful?

Distributed Database questions

Sorry for posting this a little late.

Questions:

What are three advantages of distributed database systems?

What are two disadvantages of distributed database systems?

Describe one kind of concurrency anomaly.

Why can’t you use traditional load balancers for database servers?

Why is maintaining integrity difficult in distributed databases?

What is two-phase commit in a distributed database management system?

Search Engine

Questions:

1) What are spiders and what do they do in web crawling search engines?

2) How does indexing determine if something is more important than something else?

3) What are Meta Tags?

4) What is advantage of Turbo10?

5) What are the components of On2broker?