Fast parallel construction of variable-length Markov chains

Background: Alignment-free methods are a popular approach for comparing biological sequences, including complete genomes. The methods range from probability distributions of sequence composition to first and higher-order Markov chains, where a k-th order Markov chain over DNA has 4 k formal paramete...

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Main Authors: Gustafsson, J. (Author), Norberg, P. (Author), Qvick-Wester, J.R (Author), Schliep, A. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2021
Subjects:
DNA
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