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... The survey is by no means exhaustive. Vanabons in Gap Cost Penalties How to assign scores to alignment gaps has always been more problematic than scoring aligned symbols, because the statistical effect of gaps is not well understood (see Chapter 4~.
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... leads to an O(MN) time algorithm for global alignments with alpine gap costs.
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