A new efficient data structure for storage and retrieval of multiple biosequences

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 345-357

  Steinbiss, Sascha ^a   Kurtz, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

biology and genetics; Data storage representations; reusable libraries; software engineering

Indexed keywords

ALPHABET SIZE; BIOLOGICAL SEQUENCES; BIOLOGY AND GENETICS; BIOSEQUENCES; CUSTOMIZABLE; DATA STORAGE REPRESENTATION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; EFFICIENT DATA STRUCTURES; GENERIC IMPLEMENTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN GENOMES; INTERNAL REPRESENTATION; OBJECT-ORIENTED INTERFACES; PORTABLE SOFTWARE; REUSABLE LIBRARY; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; SEQUENCE LENGTHS; SEQUENTIAL ACCESS; SPACE AND TIME; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; SUB-STRINGS;

DATA STRUCTURES; GENES; METADATA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84856496740     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2011.146     Document Type: Article

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