BACKGROUND: oposSOM is a comprehensive, machine learning based open-source data analysis software combining functionalities such as diversity analyses, biomarker selection, function mining, and visualization. RESULTS: These functionalities are now available as interactive web-browser application for a broader user audience interested in extracting detailed information from high-throughput omics data sets pre-processed by oposSOM. It enables interactive browsing of single-gene and gene set profiles, of molecular 'portrait landscapes', of associated phenotype diversity, and signalling pathway activation patterns. CONCLUSION: The oposSOM-Browser makes available interactive data browsing for five transcriptome data sets of cancer (melanomas, B-cell lymphomas, gliomas) and of peripheral blood (sepsis and healthy individuals) at www.izbi.uni-leipzig.de/opossom-browser .

Security vulnerabilities plague modern systems because writing secure systems code is hard. Promising approaches can retrofit security automatically via runtime checks that implement the desired security policy, these checks guard critical operations, like memory accesses. Alas, the induced slowdown usually exceeds by a wide margin what system users are willing to tolerate in production, so these tools are hardly ever used. As a result, the insecurity of real-world systems persists. We present an approach in which developers/operators can specify what level of overhead they find acceptable for a given workload (e.g., 5%), our proposed tool ASAP then automatically instruments the program to maximize its security while staying within the specified "overhead budget." Two insights make this approach effective: most overhead in existing tools is due to only a few "hot" checks, whereas the checks most useful to security are typically "cold" and cheap. We evaluate ASAP on programs from the Phoronix and SPEC benchmark suites. It can precisely select the best points in the security-performance spectrum. Moreover, we analyzed existing bugs and security vulnerabilities in RIPE, Open SSL, and the Python interpreter, and found that the protection level offered by the ASAP approach is sufficient to protect against all of them.