Analysis of a DNA, RNA, or peptide sequence to understand its features, function, structure, or evolution.
In bioinformatics, methodologies used include sequence alignment, searches against biological databases, and others.
The term "sequence analysis" also occurs in chemistry (identifying the order of monomers in a polymer) and marketing (analytical customer relationship management applications, such as NPTB models (Next Product to Buy).
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_analysis
For sequence analysis in social sciences please use the tag [traminer]
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_analysis_in_social_sciences