Tachyon search speeds up retrieval of similar sequences by several orders of magnitude.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts197 and PMC identifier 3371831.
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Abstract
The usage of current sequence search tools becomes increasingly slower as databases of protein sequences continue to grow exponentially. Tachyon, a new algorithm that identifies closely related protein sequences ~200 times faster than standard BLAST, circumvents this limitation with a reduced database and oligopeptide matching heuristic. The tool is publicly accessible as a webserver at http://tachyon.bii.a-star.edu.sg and can also be accessed programmatically through SOAP.
Medical subject headings
- Algorithms
- Databases, Protein
- Search Engine