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Adv Exp Med Biol
; 680: 371-8, 2010.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20865521
ABSTRACT
This paper suggests a novel way for measuring the similarity between sequences of symbols from alphabets of small cardinality such as DNA and RNA sequences. The approach relies on finding one-to-one mappings between these sequences and a subset of the real numbers. Gaps in nonidentical sequences are easily detected. Computational illustrations on DNA sequences and a comparison with BLAST are included.