The year so far has been filled with news of Spectre and Meltdown. These exploits take advantage of features like speculative execution, and memory access timing. What they have in common is the fact ...

In addition to single-nucleotide variations and small insertions-deletions (indels), larger-sized structural variations (for example, insertions, deletions, inversions, segmental duplications and copy ...

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...