Logarithmic gap costs decrease alignment accuracy

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Studies on the distribution of indel sizes have consistently found that they obey a power law. This finding has lead several scientists to propose that logarithmic gap costs, <it>G </it>(<it>k</it>) = <it&g...

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Main Author: Cartwright Reed A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/7/527