Genome comparison without alignment using shortest unique substrings

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Sequence comparison by alignment is a fundamental tool of molecular biology. In this paper we show how a number of sequence comparison tasks, including the detection of unique genomic regions, can be accomplished efficiently without...

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Main Authors: Möller Friedrich, Pierstorff Nora, Haubold Bernhard, Wiehe Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2005-05-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/123