Question

In heuristic methods, speed doesn’t vary with the size of database.

(a) True

(b) False

I have been asked this question during an interview.

This key question is from Heuristic Database Searching topic in section Database Similarity Searching of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

The correct option is (b) False

For explanation I would say: The speed is the time it takes to get results from database searches. Depending on the size of the database, speed sometimes can be a primary concern in the search methods.