October will see Dr. Pawel Gawrychowski (Max Plank Institute for Informatik) and Dr. Yasuo Tabei (Tokyo Institute of Technoology) visit Genome Scale Algorithmics, a subgroup of HIIT Algorithmic Data Analysis programme, led by Professor Veli Makinen.
Both Dr. Gawrychowski and Dr. Tabei will be in Helsinki to progress research on compressed data structures, a current frontier in data structures research and a field in which Helsinki has become a major centre. Compressed data structures aim to represent data in a little space as possible, while simultaneously supporting fast operations, such as search, over the data. A relatively young field (emerging at the turn of this century), it has already had a dramatic impact on human scientific endeavour, particularly in biology: compressed data structures are at the heart of all major tools for high-throughput DNA sequence alignment, a fundamental task in the study of disease, evolution, and agriculture.
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