The Burrows-Wheeler Transform is one of the best lossless compression me-ods available.
It is an intriguing—even puzzling—approach to squeezing redundancy out of data, it has an …

A one-of-a-kind survey of the field of Reconfigurable Computing Gives a comprehensive
introduction to a discipline that offers a 10X-100X acceleration of algorithms over …

Cryptanalysis of symmetric and asymmetric ciphers is computationally extremely
demanding. Since the security parameters (in particular the key length) of almost all practical …

Innovations in genome sequencing techniques are enabling remarkably fast and low cost
production of raw genome data. As Moore's law tapers off, bottlenecks in genome …

In the last years, advances in genome sequencing technologies have enabled the
proliferation of genomic applications that guide personalized medicine. These applications …

In the last years, advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have enabled the
proliferation of genomic applications that guide personalized medicine. These applications …

Sequence alignment remains a fundamental problem in computer science with practical
applications ranging from pattern matching to computational biology. The ever-increasing …

Sequence alignment is one of the most important activities in bioinformatics. With the ever
increasing volume of data in bioinformatics databases, the time for comparing a query …

Efficient biological sequence (proteins or DNA) alignment is an important and challenging
task in bioinformatics. It is similar to string matching in the context of biological data and is …

Protein sequences with unknown functionality are often compared to a set of known
sequences to detect functional similarities. Efficient dynamic-programming algorithms exist …