ISSN:
1573-0484
Keywords:
proteins
;
sequence comparison
;
dynamic programming
;
parallel computing
;
computational biology
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
Notes:
Abstract Software tools have been developed to do rapid, large-scale protein sequence comparisons on databases of amino acid sequences, using a data parallel computer architecture. This software enables one to compare a protein against a database of several thousand proteins in the same time required by a conventional computer to do a single protein-protein comparison, thus enabling biologists to find relevant similarities much more quickly, and to evaluate many different comparison metrics in a reasonable period of time. We have used this software to analyze the effectiveness of various scoring metrics in determining sequence similarity, and to generate statistical information about the behavior of these scoring systems under the variation of certain parameters.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00128166
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