fromwww.nature.com
1 week agoGoogle for DNA' Brings Order to Biology's Big Data
They set a new standard for analysing raw biological data including DNA, RNA and protein sequences from databases that can contain millions of billions of DNA letters, amounting to petabases' of information, more entries than all the webpages in Google's vast index. Although MetaGraph is tagged as Google for DNA', Chikhi likens the tool to a search engine for YouTube, because the tasks are more computationally demanding.
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