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Glossary
AFS. Andrew file system (AFS) is a distributed
networked file system developed by Carnegie
Mellon University as part of their Andrew Project. It
is named for Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon.
Its primary use is in distributed computing.
BLAST. Basic Local Alignment Search Tool is a
guide that provides a methods for rapid searching of
homology search like search of nucleotide and
protein database
BRICK. Emerging business countries; Brazil,
Russia, India, China and Korea.
CA. A Certificate Authority is (1) an instance or
external institute to issue authority certificates to
identify the certificate holder to use certain services;
(2) in e-commerce, an organization that issues
certificates, ...