Approximate similarity search in genomic sequence databases using landmark-guided embedding

2008-04-12
Similarity search in sequence databases is ofparamount importance in bioinformatics research. As the size of the genomic databases increases, similarity search of proteins in these databases becomes a bottle-neck in large-scale studies, calling for more efficient methods of content-based retrieval. In this study, we present a metric-preserving, landmark-guided embedding approach to represent sequences in the vector domain in order to allow efficient indexing and similarity search. We analyze various properties of the embedding and show that the approximation achieved by the embedded representation is sufficient to achieve biologically relevant results. The approximate representation is shown to provide several orders of magnitude speed-up in similarity search compared to the exact representation, while maintaining comparable search accuracy.

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Citation Formats
A. Sacan and İ. H. Toroslu, “Approximate similarity search in genomic sequence databases using landmark-guided embedding,” 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/45983.