As part of our last year project,I and my friends are planning to code a software for DNA sequence Matching and stuff like fingerprint matches.I'd Like to ask:

What Language i could use (viz JAVA,VB,C# ,i cannot use Perl thats the problem...)
What are the Hardware Devices that i will be requiring to purchase?

And where?

And at what cost?




bye!

"DNA sequence Matching" - really?! :eek:

By the time whatever program you write gets the actual DNA code it will already simply be a string of letters. At that point its an easy problem, and for speed I recommend you not use any of those languages you chose. Use simple C, compile and optimize the hell out of it. As for hardware, not sure.

-AntonK

I did a project about DNA sequences matching in C++ (not so hard to do) but I think that you will have a big problem with the hardware part if you really want to use it! (but if your school/university has some millions to spend...)

Could you throw in some details? ...(How did you do it?,conceptually.)


bye!

I will look my archives this evening, but you can begin with these links (I was looking for "Z-box") :

Exact matching (http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~stuart/Courses/CSPP-541/lecture-2.html)
A pdf about some algos (will give you some names) (http://soft.ice.mpg.de/teaching/BISS00/vorl_8.pdf)