Proteins, with their extraordinary diversity of structure and function, pose some of the toughest problems in the field of bioinformatics, giving rise to a growing arsenal of computational tools for ...

Historical introduction and overview -- Collecting and storing sequences in the laboratory -- Alignment of pairs of sequences -- Introduction to probability and statistical analysis of sequence ...

Similarity searching using BLAST / Kit J. Menlove, Mark Clement, and Keith A. Crandall -- Gene orthology assessment with OrthologID / Mary Egan ... [et al.] -- Multiple alignment of DNA sequences with ...

We are living in an era where biology has become synonymous with big data due to the ever-increasing amount of data being generated by technologies such as next-generation sequencing. Bioinformatics ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Pico Computing this week said it has achieved greater than 5000X acceleration of a bioinformatics sequence analysis and dot plot algorithm using a cluster of 112 commodity FPGA devices.

From vaccine development to personalized medicine, the influence of bioinformatics runs deep through the life sciences. Highly digitized labs rely on the ability to pull the right drop from the data ...

There are as many definitions of the word 'bioinformatics' as there are people who are willing to give one. Thus, to title a book Bioinformatics, even with the more specific subtitle, Sequence and ...