Multiple choice

Which of the following is based on the suffix tree data structure and is one of the fastest and most efficient systems available for this task, enabling it to be applied to very long sequences?

  1. Pfam

  2. ProDom

  3. MUMmer

  4. KEGG

  5. TIGRFAMs

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C Correct answer
Explanation

MUMmer is a bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment. It is based on the suffix tree data structure and is one of the fastest and most efficient systems available for this task, enabling it to be applied to very long sequences.