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Walking tree heuristics for biological string alignment, gene location, and phylogenies

Creator:

Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science, Cull, Paul, 1943-, Holloway, James Lee, and Cavener, Jeffrey Douglas

Abstract:

Basic biological information is stored in strings of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) or amino acids (proteins). Teasing out the meaning of these strings is a central problem of modern biology. Matching and aligning strings brings out their shared characteristics. Although string matching is well-understood in the edit-distance model, biological strings...

Resource Type:

Research Paper