Geometric Aspects of Biological Sequence Comparison

dc.creatorStojmirović, Aleksandar
dc.creatorYu, Yi-Kuo
dc.date2007-10-12
dc.date2007-11-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:04:31Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:04:31Z
dc.descriptionWe propose a general framework for converting global and local similarities between biological sequences to quasi-metrics. In contrast to previous works, our formulation allows asymmetric distances, originating from uneven weighting of strings, that may induce non-trivial partial orders on sets of biosequences. Furthermore, the $\ell^p$-type distances considered are more general than traditional generalized string edit distances corresponding to the $\ell^1$ case, and enable conversion of sequence similarities to distances for a much wider class of scoring schemes. Our constructions require much less restrictive gap penalties than the ones regularly used. Numerous examples are provided to illustrate the concepts introduced and their potential applications.
dc.description55 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, plain LaTex format. Added additional references, removed Appendix B, changed abstract, minor changes in text
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2555
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2555
dc.identifierJournal of Computational Biology. April 2009, 16(4): 579-610.
dc.identifierdoi:10.1089/cmb.2008.0100
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/227191
dc.subjectQuantitative Methods
dc.titleGeometric Aspects of Biological Sequence Comparison
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