Indexes Allowing Fast and Efficient Text Search

自从谷歌等搜索引擎问世以来，人们的期望是能够在海量文本中快速找到几个单词。生物学家也是如此，他们希望能够提交蛋白质序列，以便与庞大的数据库进行匹配，并在几秒钟内检索并回答问题。如果成功，该项目将发明基础软件，使人们能够更快地发现文本中的单词，并使用比当前方法更少的计算资源。随着生产率的提高和成本的降低，这项技术对搜索公众、科学家和行业的好处将是立竿见影的。

Since the arrival of search engines such as Google, it has become an expectation that we can find a few words in a very large amount of text very quickly. This is also true of biologists, who expect to be able to submit protein sequences for matching against a massive database and retrieve and answer in seconds. If successful, this project will invent fundamental software that will allow the discovery of words in text much more quickly, and using less computing resources than current methods. The benefits of this technology to the searching public, scientists, and industry will be immediate as productivity will be improved and costs reduced.