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... GLOBAL SEQUENCE COMPARISONS We will now discuss a number of situations for sequence comparisons and some probability and statistics that can be applied to these problems. Some powerful and elegant mathematics has been developed to treat this class of problems.
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  • sequence comparison
  • sequence alignment
  • global sequence


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