Part II: - Sequences

Summary

Much of the initial work in bioinformatics was centered around biological sequences of medium lengths, such as genes and protein sequences. Typical problems were finding common genomic motifs, e.g., conserved sequence motifs in the promoters’ region of a gene family, or looking for sequence similarity among proteins of different species. These tasks, and many others, have significant biological consequences. Yet the key to their solution lies in the so-called area of stringology, which is the computer science jargon for the study of string algorithms and properties.