Query Sequence

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
QS
Pronunciation
/kˈwiri ˈsikwəns/
Category
Computing
Related Field
General

Examples in Context

  1. In the application of DNA sequence database search, our goal is to find all the sequence segments in the database that are similar enough ( compared to a threshold value ) to the query sequence.
  2. Given a query sequence, the sub-sequences are looked up in the index to reduce the amount of time and searching involved.
  3. A number of programs, such as BLAST and FASTA, have been written to rapidly search a database for a query sequence.
  4. This process is composed of such sections as recognition of target template, alignment between query sequence and target sequence, modeling, evaluation of structure rationality.
  5. A secure distance computation protocol is proposed to compute the distance between query sequence and corresponding subsequence securely.

Other meanings of QS