Evaluating global and local sequence alignment methods for comparing patient medical records

Abstract Background Sequence alignment is a way of arranging sequences (e.g., DNA, RNA, protein, natural language, financial data, or medical events) to identify the relatedness between two or more sequences and regions of similarity. For Electronic Health Records (EHR) data, sequence alignment help...

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Main Authors: Ming Huang, Nilay D. Shah, Lixia Yao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0965-y