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New Technology of Library and Information Service  2006, Vol. 1 Issue (4): 74-76    DOI: 10.11925/infotech.1003-3513.2006.04.18
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QUASAR: An Algorithm for Searching Biological Sequence Databases
Yu Jun1   Hu Zhiyi2   Wang Jianguo1
1(School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Institute of Technology, Xi’an 710032,China)
2(Architectural Engineering Institute of the General Logistics Department, Xi’an 710032, China)
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Abstract  

This paper introduces an algorithm for searching biological sequence databases——QUASAR. It is based on an index suffix array, as well as uses qgram filtration and local alignment to search approximate matches of a query sequence in the databases. And also uses Window shifting and block addressing in order to speed up the retrieval and reduce the space. Finally, compares QUASAR with BLAST which is a popular searching algorithm currently.

Key wordsBiological sequence databases      QUASAR      Databases searching     
Received: 23 January 2006      Published: 25 April 2006
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Corresponding Authors: Yu Jun     E-mail: jyu0117@163.com
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Yu Jun,Hu Zhiyi,Wang Jianguo . QUASAR: An Algorithm for Searching Biological Sequence Databases. New Technology of Library and Information Service, 2006, 1(4): 74-76.

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