A geometric interpretation for local alignment-free sequence comparison.

ABSTRACT: Local alignment-free sequence comparison arises in the context of identifying similar segments of sequences that may not be alignable in the traditional sense. We propose a randomized approximation algorithm that is both accurate and efficient. We show that under D2 and its important variant [Formula: see text] as the similarity measure, local alignment-free comparison between a pair of sequences can be formulated as the problem of finding the maximum bichromatic dot product between two sets of points in high dimensions. We introduce a geometric framework that reduces this problem to that of finding the bichromatic closest pair (BCP), allowing the properties of the underlying metric to be leveraged. Local alignment-free sequence comparison can be solved by making a quadratic number of alig

SUBMITTER: Behnam E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3704055 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature