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... OPEN PROBLEMS While progress is continually being made on existing problems in sequence comparison, new problems continue to arise. A fundamental issue is the definition of similarity.
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... Many DNA structures are induced by fowling base pairs that can be viewed as finding approximate palindromes separated by a given range of spacing. More intricate patterns for protein motifs and secondary structure are suggested by the systems QUEST (Arbarbane]
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  • base pair
  • base pairs
  • sequence comparison
  • approximate string

  • dna structure
  • string matching


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