Books in the The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems series

Life science data integration and interoperability is one of the most challenging problems in bioinformatics. This title provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in data integration and interoperability in genomics, highlighting a variety of systems and giving insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their different approaches.

Compression algorithms are key to transfer and storage of multimedia applications, and many large networks depend on effective compressions. This text discusses the basic principles of compression, common compression algorithms and important standards.