Since indexes might be long, they are usually structured in some hierarchical fashion and are navigated by using pointers, which are identifiers that contain the address (location in memory) of some item.
MongoDB is not friendly to custom index structures or comparators, so we decided to construct the structure with Python code and then insert it into the database using pointers based on MongoDB's native identity codes.
The connection between two k-mers is recorded by using pointers, and the read coverage for each k-mer is stored along with it.
The VFDT is extended with the capability of using pointers to allow the decision tree to remember the mapping relationship between leaf nodes and the history records.
The HTML5-based video editor uses Pointer Events to make the whole experience touch-enabled, as well as Canvas, CSS3, HTML5 video and the requestAnimationFrame API to provide smooth animations.
Where the library had previously used pointer and reference types directly, it would now only refer to the types defined by the allocator.
Initial work by Stamatakis and Ott (2008b) on methods for efficiently computing the likelihood on phylogenomic alignments with missing data focused on computing the likelihood and optimizing branch lengths on a single, fixed tree topology using pointer meshes.
Although the use of pointers causes 70% of the bugs in C/C++ programs, pointers are a necessity for most applications.
