Protein Data Representation: A Survey

One of the critical issues in bioinformatics is the data structure used for representing the protein data; this representation is a base for the operations applied such as sequence alignment, structure alignment and motif finding. In this paper, a survey of different representations and well-known data structures used for protein data is presented from a computer science perspective. This work presents a survey and summarizes the efforts done for protein data representation and approximation. Hence, it could be a basic reference for research that is aiming to develop applications in the field of bioinformatics.