The advent of ultra-high-throughput sequencing technology has captured the imagination of the biological sciences, and with good reason. Ten years ago, on 23 November 1999, the publicly funded human ...

The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...

A rainbow table is a large, precomputed table designed to cache the output of cryptographic hash functions to decrypt hashed passwords into plaintext. Rainbow tables were invented by IT expert ...