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Circular sequence comparison: algorithms and applications

Overview of attention for article published in Algorithms for Molecular Biology, May 2016
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Title
Circular sequence comparison: algorithms and applications
Published in
Algorithms for Molecular Biology, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13015-016-0076-6
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Roberto Grossi, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Robert Mercas, Nadia Pisanti, Solon P. Pissis, Ahmad Retha, Fatima Vayani

Abstract

Sequence comparison is a fundamental step in many important tasks in bioinformatics; from phylogenetic reconstruction to the reconstruction of genomes. Traditional algorithms for measuring approximation in sequence comparison are based on the notions of distance or similarity, and are generally computed through sequence alignment techniques. As circular molecular structure is a common phenomenon in nature, a caveat of the adaptation of alignment techniques for circular sequence comparison is that they are computationally expensive, requiring from super-quadratic to cubic time in the length of the sequences. In this paper, we introduce a new distance measure based on q-grams, and show how it can be applied effectively and computed efficiently for circular sequence comparison. Experimental results, using real DNA, RNA, and protein sequences as well as synthetic data, demonstrate orders-of-magnitude superiority of our approach in terms of efficiency, while maintaining an accuracy very competitive to the state of the art.

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Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 18%
Researcher 5 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 15%
Other 3 9%
Professor 3 9%
Other 7 21%
Unknown 4 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 9 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 21%
Engineering 1 3%
Unknown 8 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 May 2017.
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#3,131,418
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#2
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