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This paper presents a new, parallel implementation of clustering and demonstrates its utility in greatly speeding up the process of identifying homologous proteins. Clustering is a technique to reduce the number of comparison needed to find…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Stuart Byma , Akash Dhasade , Adrian Altenhoff , Christophe Dessimoz , James R. Larus

A novel scheme is introduced to capture the spatial correlations of consecutive amino acids in naturally occurring proteins. This knowledge-based strategy is able to carry out optimally automated subdivisions of protein fragments into…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Cristian Micheletti , Flavio Seno , Amos Maritan

In this paper we propose a new iterative algorithm to solve the fair PCA (FPCA) problem. We start with the max-min fair PCA formulation originally proposed in [1] and derive a simple and efficient iterative algorithm which is based on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-11 Prabhu Babu , Petre Stoica

Recently, a compressed index for similar strings, called the FM-index of alignment (FMA), has been proposed with the functionalities of pattern search and random access. The FMA is quite efficient in space requirement and pattern search…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Joong Chae Na , Hyunjoon Kim , Seunghwan Min , Heejin Park , Thierry Lecroq , Martine Leonard , Laurent Mouchardd , Kunsoo Park

Advances in bio-technology have made available massive amounts of functional, structural and genomic data for many biological sequences. This increased availability of heterogeneous biological data has resulted in biological applications…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Srikrishnan Divakaran , Arpit Mithal , Namit Jain

Motivation: Standard algorithms for pairwise protein sequence alignment make the simplifying assumption that amino acid substitutions at neighboring sites are uncorrelated. This assumption allows implementation of fast algorithms for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-27 Gavin E. Crooks , Richard E. Green , Steven E. Brenner

Previous partial permutation synchronization (PPS) algorithms, which are commonly used for multi-object matching, often involve computation-intensive and memory-demanding matrix operations. These operations become intractable for large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Shaohan Li , Yunpeng Shi , Gilad Lerman

The inability to resolve deep node relationships of highly divergent/rapidly evolving protein families is a major factor that stymies evolutionary studies. In this manuscript, we propose a Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) independent…

A family of comparison-based exact pattern matching algorithms is described. They utilize multi-dimensional arrays in order to process more than one adjacent text window in each iteration of the search cycle. This approach leads to a lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Igor O. Zavadskyi

This paper addresses the Longest Filled Common Subsequence (LFCS) problem, a challenging NP-hard problem with applications in bioinformatics, including gene mutation prediction and genomic data reconstruction. Existing approaches, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Marko Djukanovic , Christian Blum , Aleksandar Kartelj , Ana Nikolikj , Guenther Raidl

Sequence alignment has had an enormous impact on our understanding of biology, evolution, and disease. The alignment of biological {\em networks} holds similar promise. Biological networks generally model interactions between biomolecules…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-25 Wayne B. Hayes

Composed of amino acid chains that influence how they fold and thus dictating their function and features, proteins are a class of macromolecules that play a central role in major biological processes and are required for the structure,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-15 Aaron Wang

Understanding how nonlinear dynamical systems (e.g., artificial neural networks and neural circuits) process information requires comparing their underlying dynamics at scale, across diverse architectures and large neural recordings. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Arman Behrad , Mitchell Ostrow , Mohammad Taha Fakharian , Ila Fiete , Christian Beste , Shervin Safavi

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

We study superfast algorithms that computes low rank approximation of a matrix (hereafter referred to as LRA) that use much fewer memory cells and arithmetic operations than the input matrix has entries. We first specify a family of 2mn…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-08 Victor Y. Pan , Qi Luan , John Svadlenka , Liang Zhao

This work demonstrates how a complete statistical model quantifying the evolution of pairs of aligned proteins can be constructed from a time-parameterised substitution matrix and a time-parameterised 3-state alignment machine. All…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dinithi Sumanaweera , Lloyd Allison , Arun S. Konagurthu

Proteins perform much of the work in living organisms, and consequently the development of efficient computational methods for protein representation is essential for advancing large-scale biological research. Most current approaches…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-09 Francesco Ceccarelli , Lorenzo Giusti , Sean B. Holden , Pietro Liò

Protein quantification and analysis are well-accepted approaches for biomarker discovery but are limited to identification without structural information. High-throughput omics data (i.e., genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Lucas Wilken , Nihjum Paul , Troy Timmerman , Sara A. Tolba , Amara Arshad , Di Wu , Wenjie Xia , Bakhtiyor Rasulev , Rick Jansen , Dali Sun

With the exponential increase of the protein sequence databases over time, multiple-sequence alignment (MSA) methods, like PSI-BLAST, perform exhaustive and time-consuming database search to retrieve evolutionary information. The resulting…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-21 Issar Arab

A key advantage of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) over Transformers is their linear computational and space complexity enables faster training and inference for long sequences. However, RNNs are fundamentally unable to randomly access…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiang Hu , Jiaqi Leng , Jun Zhao , Kewei Tu , Wei Wu