Title
Circular Sequence Comparison with q-grams
Abstract
Sequence comparison is a fundamental step in many important tasks in bioinformatics. Traditional algorithms for measuring approximation in sequence comparison are based on the notions of distance or similarity, and are generally computed through sequence alignment techniques. As circular genome structure is a common phenomenon in nature, a caveat of specialized alignment techniques for circular sequence comparison is that they are computationally expensive, requiring from super-quadratic to cubic time in the length of the sequences. In this paper, we introduce a new distance measure based on q-grams, and show how it can be computed efficiently for circular sequence comparison. Experimental results, using real and synthetic data, demonstrate orders-of-magnitude superiority of our approach in terms of efficiency, while maintaining an accuracy very competitive to the state of the art.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-662-48221-6_15
ALGORITHMS IN BIOINFORMATICS (WABI 2015)
Field
DocType
Volume
Sequence alignment,Edit distance,Alignment-free sequence analysis,Computer science,Pairwise sequence alignment,Algorithm,Suffix array,Synthetic data,Bioinformatics
Conference
9289
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
3
0.45
References 
Authors
10
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Grossi158157.47
Costas S. Iliopoulos21534167.43
Robert Mercas36912.83
Nadia Pisanti430230.91
Solon P. Pissis528157.09
Ahmad Retha6162.98
Fatima Vayani7253.85