Using Java to find the needle in the DNA haystack

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 03/14/2008 - 07:00

DeveloperWorks : "Genetics databases hold extremely large amounts of raw data. The human genome alone has approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs.

To search through all this data and find meaningful relationships within it, molecular biologists are depending more and more on efficient computer science string algorithms.

This article introduces you to three such algorithms, all of which use dynamic programming, an advanced algorithmic technique that solves optimization problems from the bottom up by finding optimal solutions to subproblems....

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