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product

a running total

algorithm discovery

finding a solution to a given problem

reverse telephone lookup

an application where you find a person’s name given his or her telephone number

sequential search

Starting at the beginning of a set of numbers and looking at each number in the list, one at a time, until we either find the one we are looking for or we come to the end of the list.

iteration

the repetitive execution of a block of operations

loop

the repetitive execution of a block of statements a large number of times

index

a “moving finger” that scans a list and points to the one that the algorithm is currently working on

library

a collection of useful, prewritten algorithms

pattern matching

the process of searching for a special pattern of symbols within a larger collection of information

human genome

the basis for all human life

a,c,t,g

4 letters for the human genome

nucleotides

Sequences of human genomes

genome annotation

the process of of locating the starting and ending boundaries of an individual gene within the 3+ billion nucleotides

probe

the sequence of nucleotides that scientists know

abstraction

the separation of the high-level view of an entity or an operation from the low-level details of its implementation.

top-down design

Viewing an operation at a high level of abstraction and fleshing out the details of its implementation at a later time