High-Performance Computational Solutions in Protein Bioinformatics

• Main Author: Mrozek, Dariusz (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Microprocessors.; Computer communication systems.; Bioinformatics.; Proteins.; Biomathematics.; Computer Science.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Computer Communication Networks.; Protein Structure.; Processor Architectures.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.

Recent developments in computer science enable algorithms previously perceived as too time-consuming to now be efficiently used for applications in bioinformatics and life sciences. This work focuses on proteins and their structures, protein structure similarity searching at main representation leve...

Table of Contents:

• Formal Model of 3D Protein Structures for Functional Genomics, Comparative Bioinformatics, and Molecular Modeling
• Multithreaded PSS-SQL for Searching Databases of Secondary Structures
• GPU and CUDA for 3D Protein Structure Similarity Searching
• Cloud Computing for 3D Protein Structure Alignment
• General Discussion and Concluding Remarks.