In recent years volume of gene and protein banks (databases) grows rapidly. The reason for storing huge volumes of gene and protein sequences in one place is not only for browsing these sequences itself, but in the first place searching for similarities among stored sequences. Similar sequences indicate similar functionality which helps in finding functions of unknown genes.
Distributed and parallel metric indexing in multimedia databases
Start year:
2008
End year:
2009
Current data processing applications use data with considerably less structure and much less precise queries than traditional database systems. The multimedia data, like images or videos, that offer query-by-example search, are a typical example. Such data can neither be ordered in a canonical manner nor meaningfully searched by precise database queries that would return exact matches. This novel situation is what has given rise to a similarity searching.