Recent technologies have made it cost-effective to collect diverse types of genome-wide data. Computational methods are needed to combine these data to create a comprehensive view of a given disease ...

Any data that does not fall into the traditional field structure (alpha, numeric, dates) of a relational DBMS. Examples of complex data types are bills of materials, word processing documents, maps, ...

The operations that may be performed on an ADT completely depend on the ADT’s purpose. For example, an ADT for a stack might include operations such as initialization, pushing data, popping data, ...