Background: The large gap between the number of protein sequences in databases and the number of functionally characterized proteins calls for the development of a fast computatio...
Background: The identification of local similarities between two protein structures can provide clues of a common function. Many different methods exist for searching for similar ...
Background: Biologists are often interested in performing a simple database search to identify proteins or genes that contain a well-defined sequence pattern. Many databases do no...
Queries, or calls to stored procedures/user-defined functions are often invoked multiple times, either from within a loop in an application program, or from the where/select claus...
Time series motif discovery is an important problem with applications in a variety of areas that range from telecommunications to medicine. Several algorithms have been proposed t...