TR 96-042 by Nisha Agarwal, Elizabeth Shoop, Ed Chi, John Riedl Molecular biologists can use existing sequence information to aid in the determination of function for newly sequenced genes. Since these sequences may have similar function to existing sequences, the existing sequences and the new sequences are compared for similarity.
Several algorithms exist for sequence similarity comparison.
We did a study of these two algorithms to determine which of the two algorithms is more sensitive. These extra hits may help identify the function of the newly sequenced genes.