Abstract
The problem of computing the similarity of two run-length encoded strings has been studied for various scoring metrics. Many algorithms have been developed for the longest common subsequence metric and some algorithms for the Levenshtein distance metric and the weighted edit distance metric. In this paper we consider similarity based on the affine gap penalty metric which is a more general and rather complicated scoring metric than the weighted edit distance. To compute the similarity in this model efficiently, we convert the problem into a path problem on a directed acyclic graph and use some properties of maximum paths in this graph. We present an O (n m′ + n′ m) time algorithm for computing the similarity of two run-length encoded strings in the affine gap penalty model, where n and m are the lengths of given two strings whose run-length encoded lengths are n′ and m′, respectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 268-282 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Theoretical Computer Science |
| Volume | 395 |
| Issue number | 2-3 |
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| State | Published - 1 May 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I K. Park’s work was supported by FPR05A2-341 of 21C Frontier Functional Proteomics Project from Korean Ministry of Science & Technology and A. Amir and G. M. Landau’s work was partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant 35/05. ∗Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 880 8381; fax: +82 2 885 3141. E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Park).
Keywords
- Affine gap penalty
- Run-length encoding
- Similarity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science