In this piece, I highlight one particular talk that caught my interest — given by Elana Fertig, Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. Fertig’s talk centered ...

Companies are already building interesting products on Microsoft SQL Server 2008’s spatial data types, currently in beta. Spatial data types means businesses and products can now handle complex ...

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized the study of gene expression at the single-cell level. Recently, spatial technology has taken transcriptomics to the next level by adding ...

Several major database systems provide extensions to support the management and analysis of spatial data in a relational database system (IBM02, Ora01 and IBM01). The functionality is also ...