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dc.contributor.authorBarton, C.
dc.contributor.authorIliopoulos, Costas
dc.contributor.authorPissis, S.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:23:18Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:23:18Z
dc.date.created2015-03-02T00:00:56Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationBarton, C. and Iliopoulos, C. and Pissis, S. 2014. Fast algorithms for approximate circular string matching. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 9 (1).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21124
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/1748-7188-9-9
dc.description.abstract

Background: Circular string matching is a problem which naturally arises in many biological contexts. It consists in finding all occurrences of the rotations of a pattern of length m in a text of length n. There exist optimal average-case algorithms for exact circular string matching. Approximate circular string matching is a rather undeveloped area.Results: In this article, we present a suboptimal average-case algorithm for exact circular string matching requiring time O(n). Based on our solution for the exact case, we present two fast average-case algorithms for approximate circular string matching with k-mismatches, under the Hamming distance model, requiring time O(n) for moderate values of k, that is k = O(m/ logm). We show how the same results can be easily obtained under the edit distancemodel. The presented algorithms are also implemented as library functions. Experimental results demonstrate thatthe functions provided in this library accelerate the computations by more than three orders of magnitude compared to a naïve approach.Conclusions: We present two fast average-case algorithms for approximate circular string matching with k-mismatches; and show that they also perform very well in practice. The importance of our contribution is underlined by the fact that the provided functions may be seamlessly integrated into any biological pipeline. The source code of the library is freely available at http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/research/projects/asmf/.

dc.publisherSpringer
dc.titleFast algorithms for approximate circular string matching
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume9
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage10
dcterms.source.issn1748-7188
dcterms.source.titleAlgorithms for Molecular Biology
curtin.departmentDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics
curtin.accessStatusOpen access via publisher


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