Benchmarking of alignment-free sequence comparison methods

Benchmarking of alignment-free sequence comparison methods

Abstract Background Alignment-free (AF) sequence comparison is attracting persistent interest driven by data-intensive applications. Hence, many AF procedures have been proposed in recent years, but a lack of a clearly defined benchmarking consensus hampers their performance assessment. Results Here...

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Main Authors: Andrzej Zielezinski, Hani Z. Girgis, Guillaume Bernard, Chris-Andre Leimeister, Kujin Tang, Thomas Dencker, Anna Katharina Lau, Sophie Röhling, Jae Jin Choi, Michael S. Waterman, Matteo Comin, Sung-Hou Kim, Susana Vinga, Jonas S. Almeida, Cheong Xin Chan, Benjamin T. James, Fengzhu Sun, Burkhard Morgenstern, Wojciech M. Karlowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:Genome Biology
Subjects:
Alignment-free
Sequence comparison
Benchmark
Whole-genome phylogeny
Horizontal gene transfer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-019-1755-7

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