Comparing compressed sequences for faster nucleotide BLAST searches

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 349-364

  Cameron, Michael ^a   Williams, Hugh E ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

BLAST; Compression; Four Russians algorithm; Homology search; Sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INNOVATION; PROTEINS;

BLAST; BYTEPACKEDFORMATS; GENOMIC SEQUENCES; HOMOLOGY SEARCH;

NUCLEOTIDES;

NUCLEOTIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATA COMPRESSION; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, GENETIC; NUCLEOTIDES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 34548580699     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2007.1029     Document Type: Article

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