Title
Indexing Genomic Databases for Fast Homology Searching
Abstract
Genomic sequence databases has been widely used by molecular biologists for homology searching. However, as amino acid and nucleotide databases are growing in size at an alarming rate, traditional brute force approach of comparing a query sequence against each of the database sequences is becoming prohibitively expensive. In this paper, we re-examine the problem of searching for homology in large protein databases. We proposed a novel filter-and-refine approach to speed up the search process. The scheme operates in two phases. In the filtering phase, a small set of candidate database sequences (as compared to all sequences in the database) is quickly identified. This is realized using a signature-based scheme. In the refinement phase, the query sequence is matched against the sequences in the candidate set using any local alignment strategies. Our preliminary experimental results show that the proposed method results in significant savings in computation without sacrificing on the accuracy of the answers as compared to FASTA.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/3-540-46146-9_86
DEXA
Keywords
Field
DocType
proposed method result,novel filter-and-refine approach,query sequence,database sequence,refinement phase,candidate database sequence,large protein databases,signature-based scheme,indexing genomic databases,nucleotide databases,genomic sequence databases,fast homology searching,genome sequence,local alignment,nucleotides,indexation,amino acid
Data mining,Computer science,Search engine indexing,Filter (signal processing),Brute force,Smith–Waterman algorithm,Homology (biology),Small set,Database,Speedup,Computation
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-44126-3
1
0.38
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Twee-Hee Ong1121.61
Kian-Lee Tan26962776.65
Hao Wang3163.28