Extracting Common Motifs under the Levenshtein Measure: Theory and Experimentation

  • Authors:
  • Ezekiel F. Adebiyi;Michael Kaufmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WABI '02 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Using our techniques for extracting approximate nontandem repeats[1] on well constructed maximal models, we derive an algorithm to find common motifs of length P that occur in N sequences with at most D differences under the Edit distance metric. We compare the effectiveness of our algorithm with the more involved algorithm of Sagot[17] for Edit distance on some real sequences. Her method has not been implemented before for Edit distance but only for Hamming distance[12,20]. Our resulting method turns out to be simpler and more efficient theoretically and also in practice for moderately large P and D.