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MARINELLA SCIORTINO

A New Combinatorial Approach to Sequence Comparison

  • Authors: Mantaci, S; Restivo, A; Rosone, G; Sciortino, M
  • Publication year: 2005
  • Type: Capitolo o Saggio (Capitolo o saggio)
  • OA Link: http://hdl.handle.net/10447/47007

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new alignment-free method for comparing sequences which is combinatorial by nature and does not use any compressor nor any information-theoretic notion. Such a method is based on an extension of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, a transformation widely used in the context of Data Compression. The new extended transformation takes as input a multiset of sequences and produces as output a string obtained by a suitable rearrangement of the characters of all the input sequences. By using such a transformation we define a measure to compare sequences that takes into account how the characters coming from different input sequences are mixed in the output string. Such a method is tested on a real data set for the whole mitochondrial genome phylogeny problem. However, the goal of this paper is to introduce a new and general methodology for automatic categorization of sequences