Biological Sequence and Structure: Crossing Boundaries in the Information Explosion
Dr Andrew Martin, Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Unit, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College London

Abstract: Biological sequence and structural data are accumulating at an exponential rate. The many genome mapping projects (including that of the human genome) have added significantly to this data explosion. The need to classify and organise these data has therefore become more pressing and the flat file databanks used to date need to be replaced with modern database technology. Application of such technology facilitates understanding of relationships in the data through data mining.

Some algorithms for sequence and structure comparison will be described together with some novel database applications. Unlike previous databanks/databases used for storage of biological data, these systems cross sequence/structure and structure/function organisational boundaries.

This seminar was held at the Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London on 7 July 1998.

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