Photosynthetic algorithm approaches for bioinformatics

Photosynthetic algorithm (PA) is the newly biosystem-derived heuristic search algorithm that utilizes the dark reaction rules governing the transfer of carbon molecules from one substance into another in the Calvin-Benson cycle and photorespiration. There are only two works using this new algorithm in the literature, one for finite element analysis and one for N-queen problem. This paper presents PA based novel solution techniques in bioinformatics problems such as aligning multiple sequences and discovering association rules within bio-medical data. The simulation results demonstrate the applicability and potential of this algorithm. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.