RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Searching and Indexing Genomic Databases via Kernelization JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 012161 DO 10.1101/012161 A1 Travis Gagie A1 Simon J. Puglisi YR 2014 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/12/04/012161.abstract AB The rapid advance of DNA sequencing technologies has yielded databases of thousands of genomes. To search and index these databases effectively, it is important that we take advantage of the similarity between those genomes. Several authors have recently suggested searching or indexing only one reference genome and the parts of the other genomes where they differ. In this paper we survey the twenty-year history of this idea and discuss its relation to kernelization in parameterized complexity.