Similarity Search in Biological and Engineering Databases.
Hans‐Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle, Stefan Schönauer · 2004
Similarity search is an important task in a wide range of scientific database applications. Besides being used directly, it is also used as a basic operation for many data mining algorithms. Example applications which are presented in this article are functional classification of proteins in biological databases and the similarity search of CAD parts in engineering environments. It turns out that the general concept of set-based similarity measures can be successfully applied to both of these diverse application domains. 1