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.