Fast Database Indexing for Large Protein Sequence Collections Using Parallel N-Gram Transformation Algorithm

Autor: Hammad, Jehad A. H., Nur'Aini Binti Abdul Rashid
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1328980
Popis: With the rapid development in the field of life sciences and the flooding of genomic information, the need for faster and scalable searching methods has become urgent. One of the approaches that were investigated is indexing. The indexing methods have been categorized into three categories which are the lengthbased index algorithms, transformation-based algorithms and mixed techniques-based algorithms. In this research, we focused on the transformation based methods. We embedded the N-gram method into the transformation-based method to build an inverted index table. We then applied the parallel methods to speed up the index building time and to reduce the overall retrieval time when querying the genomic database. Our experiments show that the use of N-Gram transformation algorithm is an economical solution; it saves time and space too. The result shows that the size of the index is smaller than the size of the dataset when the size of N-Gram is 5 and 6. The parallel N-Gram transformation algorithm-s results indicate that the uses of parallel programming with large dataset are promising which can be improved further.
Databáze: OpenAIRE