TOPAZ: asymmetric suffix array neighbourhood search for massive protein databases

Abstract Background Protein homology search is an important, yet time-consuming, step in everything from protein annotation to metagenomics. Its application, however, has become increasingly challenging, due to the exponential growth of protein databases. In order to perform homology search at the r...

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Main Authors: Alan Medlar, Liisa Holm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2290-3