Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1156210 | Stochastic Processes and their Applications | 2008 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
The problem of sequence comparison via optimal alignments occurs naturally in many areas of applications. The simplest such technique is based on evaluating a score given by the length of a longest common subsequence divided by the average length of the original sequences. In this paper we investigate the expected value of this score when the input sequences are random and their length tends to infinity. The corresponding limit exists but is not known precisely. We derive a theoretical large deviation, convex analysis and Monte Carlo based method to compute a consistent sequence of upper bounds on the unknown limit. An empirical practical version of our method produces promising numerical results.
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Authors
Clement Durringer, Raphael Hauser, Heinrich Matzinger,