ri, Sep 12, 2003: Nature Reports on Bioinformatics Software Tools PatternHunter and Prospect Pro

Waterloo - September 12, 2003. This week's edition of Nature provides an overview of BSI products PatternHunter and Prospect Pro. The article lauds PatternHunter's spaced seed technology, which provides the ability to search large genomes at unprecedented speeds, without the loss in sensitivity that results in missed alignments. Additionally, the Nature article mentions Prospect Pro's threading approach as a means to find the best-fitting protein structure.

• Nature 425, 209 - 215 (11 September 2003);