Google is fast, you have to agree…it can somehow narrow down a search of billions of webpages and bring you a list of the “most relevant” within fractions of a second. Admittedly, sometimes that list can be long, but it’s still quite astounding how it does it. Anyway, it occurred to me that maybe its indexing method and algorithm might be useful to those who search DNA databases.
Chemists are slowly beginning to recognise how Google can be used to search for unique chemical structures using the INChI format, so maybe there is potential for DNA searching. Maybe DNA searching is already fast enough, but I somehow doubt it.