His initial idea was to use gene databases being churned out by genetics maverick J.
Other scientists can now use existing databases to sort out the information, and look at the genes involved in the spread of the fungus.
Both firms were among the first to use computerized databases to scan the genome-the "map" or blueprint of 25, 000 or so active genes that contain the code for the body's proteins.
Genetic hackers who get a sample of your DNA could use public databases to figure out whose genetic sample they have and then they would know all about the future written in your genes too.
Livestrong operates one of the best and easiest to use searchable online databases of clinical trials for cancer patients.
Some 10, 000 businesses use Ingres' databases, typically on just a few boxes.
He likes unglamorous niche products like the "middleware" that insurers use to link various databases.
But they're of little use in sifting multiple databases--what if the customer has a second card with a different company?
Good habits start with basic data literacy skills such as knowing how to do a proper Google search and know to use non-indexed databases such as USASpending.gov.
Images posted to a Pastebin page suggest the hacking group accessed some sites by attacking the databases many companies use to catalogue and curate website content.
Similar stolen-phone databases are already in use abroad, including in the U.K., Germany, France and Australia.
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Large businesses use ERP applications to connect different databases in an effort to gain business insight and improve customer service.
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At Chrysler and John Deere, RWD designed systems that enable dealership repairmen to use the Internet to tap into databases at the parent company for help when they're repairing cars and construction equipment.
Relational databases went from narrow use cases to being used for multiple tasks all over the enterprise with APIs, apps on top, and eventually through systems like ERP, they became the center of the enterprise.
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Lawyers need to understand how to use computer technology to gather information from multiple databases, to manage case files and even to bill their hours.
But without public databases available with data about GMO use, for example, companies like Fooducate are only able to offer a level of probability that a product contains GMO ingredients.
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The researchers showed how to get round the limited computational abilities of the smart tags to use them as an attack vector and corrupt databases holding information about what a company has in storage.
In their research paper Mr Tanenbaum and his colleagues Melanie Rieback and Bruno Crispo detail how to use RFID tags to spread viruses and subvert corporate databases.
So it should come as no surprise that if a company came along with a better way to manage databases, it would interest companies that use them.
Law enforcement officers also can use NCIC 2000 to identify relationships among information in the databases.
Each says it has detailed information on more than 100 million U.S. households, though contents of their databases vary as do their rules related to data use.
This new law applies to the United States, but organizations will need to have the ability to enforce their policies with asset management databases that identify device locations, and where employees who use those devices reside to properly enforce local laws, whether in the US or around the globe.
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Administrators could use the device to take notes during classroom observations, search student and teacher databases and make and receive phone calls, says Adam Garry, a Dell manager of global professional learning.
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Software makers get all wrapped up in sexy new features and functions and hundreds of ways of doing the exact same thing that they seem to forget the most fundamental use of their products: most business software applications are systems built around databases.
"All other databases on the market today were designed for an offline, back-office use, " says MySQL Chief Executive Marten Mickos.
His goal is to use these resources to expand Tokutek by applying its indexing technology to more different kinds of databases.
Customers use FAST to search billions of public Web pages and hundreds of terabytes of e-mail, databases and documents behind their firewalls.
In order to accomplish this, the FDA now has access to commercial databases that contain (non-patient-identifiable) information about the real-world use of marketed prescription drugs.
ProPublica has done an admirable amount of heavy lifting, taking databases published by big pharma companies and device manufacturers and aggregating them on its Web site for journalists to use.
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