Modern genome sequencing technologies produce enormous amount of data daily. Biologists in turn are keen to precisely explore this genomic data in order to discover effective patterns that have a real impact on the function and evolution of living creatures. Therefore, it becomes very critical to professionally store this data in order to efficiently explore it in a frequent manner. Reference-based Compression algorithms (RbCs) efficiently compress the sequenced genomes by mainly storing their differences with respect to a reference genome. Therefore, RbCs give amazing compression ratios...

Membrane computing is representing an active branch on natural computing. Membrane computing (also called P system) is mainly inspired from the functioning of the neural cells. In this book a historical survey of membrane computing is given, after that simulations of Boolean logic gates and basic database tasks using P system are represented, then a solution for the Rough P system problem is introduced, also how to apply the Rough P system to simulate the Boolean logic gates and basic database tasks is presented. Experimental Results show a comparison between the simulation of the two...