Tachyon search speeds up retrieval of similar sequences by several orders of magnitude

• Main Authors: Sirota, Fernanda L., Sherman, Westley A., Tan, Joshua, Kuchibhatla, Durga, Gattermayer, Tobias, Kwoh, Chia Yee, Eisenhaber, Frank, Schneider, Georg, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95996; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10780
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Summary: 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 reduc...