A suffix tree is a fundamental data structure for string searching algorithms. Unfortunately, when it comes to the use of suffix trees in real-life applications, the current metho...
Marina Barsky, Ulrike Stege, Alex Thomo, Chris Upt...
Background: Many vital biological processes, including transcription and splicing, require a combination of short, degenerate sequence patterns, or motifs, adjacent to defined seq...
Micah Hamady, Erin Peden, Rob Knight, Ravinder Sin...
In this paper we investigate some properties and algorithms related to a text sparsification technique based on the identification of local maxima in the given string. As the numb...
Pierluigi Crescenzi, Alberto Del Lungo, Roberto Gr...
Background: Phages, viruses that infect prokaryotes, are the most abundant microbes in the world. A major limitation to studying these viruses is the difficulty of cultivating the...
Florent Angly, Beltran Rodriguez-Brito, David Bang...
Background: The genomes of prokaryotes and lower eukaryotes display a very strong 11 bp periodic bias in the distribution of their nucleotides. This bias is present throughout a g...