Comparison of Variants of Blast

.........................................................................................................................i Declaration.......................................................................................ii Acknowledgement..............................................................................iii List of Figures..................................................................................vii List of Tables....................................................................................ix Organization of Thesis.........................................................................x CHAPTER 1 DATA MINING .............................................................................. 1-10 1.1 DATA MINING.......................................................................................................1 1.2 WHY DATA MINING ............................................................................................1 1.3 STEPS OF KDD PROCESS ....................................................................................2 1.4 WHAT KIND OF DATA CAN BE MINED? .........................................................4 1.4.1 Relational Databases .....................................................................................4 1.4.2 Data Warehouses...........................................................................................4 1.4.3 Transactional Databases ................................................................................4 1.4.4 Multimedia Databases ...................................................................................5 1.4.5 Spatial Databases...........................................................................................5 1.4.6 World Wide Web ..........................................................................................5 1.4.7 Advanced DB and Information Repositories ................................................5 1.5 ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA MINING SYSTEM..............................................6 1.5.1 Database, Data Warehouse, or Other Information Repository......................6 1.5.2 Database or Data Warehouse Server .............................................................6 1.5.3 Knowledge Base............................................................................................7 1.5.4 Data Mining Engine ......................................................................................7 1.5.5 Pattern Evaluation Module............................................................................8 1.5.6 Graphical User Interface ...............................................................................8 1.6 DATA MINING APPLICATIONS .........................................................................8 1.7 THE SCOPE OF DATA MINING ..........................................................................9 CHAPTER 2 BIOINFORMATICS.................................................................... 11-24 2.1 WHY BIOINFORMATICS ...................................................................................11