Maximum-Scoring Segment Sets

  • Authors:
  • Miklos Csuros

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We examine the problem of finding maximum-scoring sets of disjoint segments in a sequence of scores. The problem arises in DNA and protein segmentation and in postprocessing of sequence alignments. Our key result states a simple recursive relationship between maximum-scoring segment sets. The statement leads to fast algorithms for finding such segment sets. We apply our methods to the identification of noncoding RNA genes in thermophiles.