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BackgroundThe advancement of sequencing technology has led to a rapid increase in the amount of DNA and protein sequence data; consequently, the size of genomic and proteomic databases is constantly growing. As a result, database searches need to be continually updated to account for the new data being added. However, continually re-searching the entire existing dataset wastes resources. Incremental database search can address this problem. MethodsOne recently introduced incremental search method is iBlast, which wraps the BLAST sequence search method with an algorithm to reuse previously processed data and thereby increase search efficiency. The iBlast wrapper, however, must be generalized to support better performing DNA/protein sequence search methods that have been developed, namely MMseqs2 and Diamond. To address this need, we propose iSeqsSearch, which extends iBlast by incorporating support for MMseqs2 (iMMseqs2) and Diamond (iDiamond), thereby providing a more generalized and broadly effective incremental search framework. Moreover, the previously published iBlast wrapper has to be revised to be more robust and usable by the general community. ResultsiMMseqs2 and iDiamond, which apply the incremental approach, perform nearly identical to MMseqs2 and Diamond. Notably, when comparing ranking comparison methods such as the Pearson correlation, we observe a high concordance of over 0.9, indicating similar results. Moreover, in some cases, our incremental approach, iSeqsSearch, which extends the iBlast merge function to iMMseqs2 and iDiamond, provides more hits compared to the conventional MMseqs2 and Diamond methods. ConclusionThe incremental approach using iMMseqs2 and iDiamond demonstrates efficiency in terms of reusing previously processed data while maintaining high accuracy and concordance in search results. This method can reduce resource waste in continually growing genomic and proteomic database searches. The sample codes and data are available at GitHub and Zenodo (https://github.com/EESI/Incremental-Protein-Search; DOI:10.5281/zenodo.14675319). 

Chain-transfer ring-opening metathesis polymerization (CT-ROMP) previously provided a route to carboxytelechelic polyethylene (PE) of controlled molecular weight; however, the incorporation of oligomeric PE into segmented copolymers remains unexplored. Herein, CT-ROMP afforded carboxytelechelic polycyclooctene segments, and subsequent reduction generated well-defined carboxytelechelic PE with M n = 3900 g mol −1 . Solvent-free melt polycondensation of neopentyl glycol and adipic acid with varying wt% telechelic PE oligomers yielded mechanically durable segmented copolyesters. The thermal and thermomechanical properties of the segmented copolyesters correlated with PE segment content, and high PE content copolymers exhibited remarkably similar morphologies and thermomechanical performance to conventional HDPE. The segmented copolyesters displayed advantageous physical properties while introducing susceptibility to chemo- and bio-catalytic depolymerization through periodic ester linkages, thus providing valuable fundamental understanding of an alternative route to HDPE.