Background: Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a powerful tool for protein identification. Although great efforts have been made in scoring the correlation between tandem mass sp...
: PSO, like many stochastic search methods, is very sensitive to efficient parameter setting such that modifying a single parameter may cause a considerable change in the result. I...
Background: The Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment is more sensitive than heuristic methods for database searching, but also more time-consuming. The fastest ap...