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Pairwise sequence alignment is one of the most computationally intensive kernels in genomic data analysis, accounting for more than 90% of the runtime for key bioinformatics applications. This method is particularly expensive for…

De novo genome assembly is challenging in highly repetitive regions; however, reference-guided assemblers often suffer from bias. We propose a framework for pangenome-guided sequence assembly, which can resolve short-read data in complex…

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Network management, whether for malfunction analysis, failure prediction, performance monitoring and improvement, generally involves large amounts of data from different sources. To effectively integrate and manage these sources,…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Fubao Wu , Han Hee Song , Jiangtao Yin , Lixin Gao , Mario Baldi , Narendra Anand

Motivation: Protein-to-genome alignment is critical to annotating genes in non-model organisms. While there are a few tools for this purpose, all of them were developed over ten years ago and did not incorporate the latest advances in…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Heng Li

Machine comprehension(MC) style question answering is a representative problem in natural language processing. Previous methods rarely spend time on the improvement of encoding layer, especially the embedding of syntactic information and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-31 Boyuan Pan , Hao Li , Zhou Zhao , Bin Cao , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Human daily behavior unfolds as complex sequences shaped by intentions, preferences, and context. Effectively modeling these behaviors is crucial for intelligent systems such as personal assistants and recommendation engines. While recent…

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Sequence Alignment is the process of aligning biological sequences in order to identify similarities between multiple sequences. In this paper, a Quantum Algorithm for finding the optimal alignment between DNA sequences has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Md. Rabiul Islam Khan , Shadman Shahriar , Shaikh Farhan Rafid

Sequence alignment supports numerous tasks in bioinformatics, natural language processing, pattern recognition, social sciences, and others fields. While the alignment of two sequences may be performed swiftly in many applications, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Eloi Araujo , Luiz Rozante , Diego P. Rubert , Fabio V. Martinez

We propose two quantum algorithms for a problem in bioinformatics, position weight matrix (PWM) matching, which aims to find segments (sequence motifs) in a biological sequence such as DNA and protein that have high scores defined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Koichi Miyamoto , Naoki Yamamoto , Yasubumi Sakakibara

This paper presents new and effective algorithms for learning kernels. In particular, as shown by our empirical results, these algorithms consistently outperform the so-called uniform combination solution that has proven to be difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Corinna Cortes , Mehryar Mohri , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Background: Identifying all possible mapping locations of next-generation sequencing (NGS) reads is highly essential in several applications such as prediction of genomic variants or protein binding motifs located in repeat regions, isoform…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-25 Ngoc Hieu Tran , Xin Chen

Btrim is a fast and lightweight software to trim adapters and low quality regions in reads from ultra high-throughput next-generation sequencing machines. It also can reliably identify barcodes and assign the reads to the original samples.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-28 Yong Kong

We have recently used genetic programming to automatically generate an improved version of Langmead's DNA read alignment tool Bowtie2 Sect.5.3 RN/12/09. We find it runs more than four times faster than the Bioinformatics sequencing tool…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-23 W. B. Langdon

Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) is one of the most computationally intensive tasks in Computational Biology. Existing best known solutions for multiple sequence alignment take several hours (in some cases days) of computation time to…

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Sequence comparison is a widely used computational technique in modern molecular biology. In spite of the frequent use of sequence comparisons the important problem of assigning statistical significance to a given degree of similarity is…

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Behavioral model diagrams, e.g., sequence diagrams, are an essential form of documentation that are typically designed by system engineers from requirements documentation, either fully manually or assisted by design tools. With the growing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Khaled Ahmed , Jialing Song , Boqi Chen , Ou Wei , Bingzhou Zheng

Sequence alignment is common nowadays as it is used in many fields to determine how closely two sequences are related and at times to see how little they differ. In computational biology / Bioinformatics, there are many algorithms developed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Bharath Reddy , Richard Fields

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities across diverse tasks, yet aligning them efficiently and effectively with human expectations remains a critical challenge. This thesis advances LLM alignment by introducing novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yuxin Jiang

Sequence alignment is one of the oldest and the most famous problems in bioinformatics. Even after 45 years, for one reason or another, this problem is still actual; current solutions are trade-offs between execution time, memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Matija Korpar , Mile Sikic

Sequence alignment is a cornerstone of bioinformatics, widely used to identify similarities between DNA, RNA, and protein sequences and studying evolutionary relationships and functional properties. The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm remains a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Linus Zwaka