Phylogeny reconstruction based on the length distribution of k-mismatch common substrings
Abstract Background Various approaches to alignment-free sequence comparison are based on the length of exact or inexact word matches between pairs of input sequences. Haubold et al. (J Comput Biol 16:1487–1500, 2009) showed how the average number of substitutions per position between two DNA sequen...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2017-12-01
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Series: | Algorithms for Molecular Biology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13015-017-0118-8 |