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... The tails of the extremal distributions in the loganthmic region probably behave like exp(-Xt) , where t is the test value as in the section "Local Sequence Comparisons" and ~ is a constant, but this has not yet been proven rigorously.
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... 1, 3rd ea., New York: Wiley and Sons. Goldstein, L., 1990, "Poisson approximation and DNA sequence matching," Communications in Statistics.
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  • sequence comparison
  • random sequences
  • dna sequence
  • poisson approximation
  • sciences usa

  • local sequence
  • sequence alignment


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