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                       BIOINFORMATICS COLLOQUIUM
                    School of Computational Sciences
                        George Mason University
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             Very High Speed, High Volume Sequence Matching

                            Jason Kinser
                                GMU

                      Tuesday, February 3, 2004
                               4:30 pm
               Verizon Auditorium, Prince William Campus

Using technologies developed in the defense industry sequence
information is converted to a numeric form and condensed to perform
high-speed sequence matching.  The goal is to compress information of 4
million sequences into 250MB and be able to search that entire database
in less than 30 seconds on a standard PC.  Preliminary work with
sequences encoded via complex notation have reached the halfway mark of
this goal.  Sequence encoding using four-dimensional phasors show
promise to completely reach the stated goal.

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