FastLSA: A fast, linear-space, parallel and sequential algorithm for sequence alignment

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 337-375

  Driga, Adrian ^a   Lu, Paul ^a   Schaeffer, Jonathan ^a   Szafron, Duane ^a   Charter, Kevin ^b   Parsons, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Computational biology; Homology search; Linear space; Parallel and sequential algorithms; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DNA; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; PROTEINS;

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HIRSCHBERG'S ALGORITHM; HOMOLOGY SEARCH; LINEAR SPACE; PARALLEL AND SEQUENTIAL ALGORITHMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33745046174     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: 14320541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00453-006-1217-y     Document Type: Article

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