A Genetic Optimization approach for finding common Motif in Biological Sequences

The field of Bioinformatics is gaining much attention these days due to advancement of computer programs and molecular biology, but there are many human activities which are lying unknown yet. Finding common motif is also a major topic in the field. As with the similarity in the sequences, their families and activities can be identified easily when one of the sequences is tested. The common motif finding can help finding unknown members of a family and can help in applications like drug design. In this paper, it is proposed to find common motif in biological sequences. Here RNA sequences are used. The paper is divided mainly in to three sections. Firstly some basics of bioinformatics are discussed followed by the proposed approach and finally the result and conclusions are presented.