International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 56 - Number 11 |
Year of Publication: 2012 |
Authors: Ahmed S. Fadel, Mohamed Belal, Mostafa-sami M. Mostafa |
10.5120/8936-3075 |
Ahmed S. Fadel, Mohamed Belal, Mostafa-sami M. Mostafa . Protein Data Representation: A Survey. International Journal of Computer Applications. 56, 11 ( October 2012), 22-27. DOI=10.5120/8936-3075
One of the critical issues in bioinformatics is the data structure used for representing the protein data; this representation is a base for the operations applied such as sequence alignment, structure alignment and motif finding. In this paper, a survey of different representations and well-known data structures used for protein data is presented from a computer science perspective. This work presents a survey and summarizes the efforts done for protein data representation and approximation. Hence, it could be a basic reference for research that is aiming to develop applications in the field of bioinformatics.