Data structures for bioinformatics [closed]

Question

What are some data structures that should be known by somebody involved in bioinformatics? I guess that anyone is supposed to know about lists, hashes, balanced trees, etc., but I expect that there are domain specific data structures. Is there any book devoted to this subject?

Answer 1

The most fundamental data structure used in bioinformatics is string. There are also a whole range of different data structures representing strings. And algorithms like string matching are based on the efficient representation/data structures.

A comprehensive work on this is Dan Gusfield's Algorithms on Strings, Trees and Sequences