Genomic/proteomic sequence representation, visualization, comparison and reporting using bioinformatics character set and mapped bioinformatics font

Abstract

Genomic or proteomic data are encoded as a genomic or proteomic character string comprising characters of a bioinformatics character set (20). Each base or peptide of the genomic or proteomic data is represented by a single character of the bioinformatics character set, and each character of the bioinformatics character set encodes (I) a base or peptide and (II) at least one annotated datum value associated with the base or peptide. The genomic or proteomic data are displayed by displaying the genomic or proteomic character string using a bioinformatics font (40) mapped to the bioinformatics character set. At least one string function may be performed on the genomic or proteomic character string to generate an updated genomic or proteomic character string in which at least one base or peptide is represented by a single character encoding at least one additional or modified annotated datum generated by the performed string manipulation.

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