A New Method for Finding Approximate Repetitions in DNA Sequences (original) (raw)

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Searching for approximate repetitions in a DNA sequence has been an important topic in gene analysis. One of the problems in the study is that because of the varying lengths of patterns, the similarity between patterns cannot be judged accurately if we use only the concept of ED ( Edit Distance ). In this paper we shall make effort to define a new function to compute similarity, which considers both the difference and sameness between patterns at the same time. Seeing the computational complexity, we shall also propose two new filter methods based on frequency distance and Pearson correlation, with which we can sort out candidate set of approximate repetitions efficiently. We use SUA instead of sliding window to get the fragments in a DNA sequence, so that the patterns of an approximate repetition have no limitation on length. The results show that with our technique we are able to find a bigger number of approximate repetitions than that of those found with tandem repeat finder.

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  1. College of Information Science & Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110004, China
    Di Wang, Guoren Wang, Qingquan Wu, Baichen Chen & Yi Zhao
  2. Shanghai Baosight Ltd., Shanghai, 201900, China
    Qingquan Wu

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  1. Di Wang
  2. Guoren Wang
  3. Qingquan Wu
  4. Baichen Chen
  5. Yi Zhao

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  1. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    Jeffrey Xu Yu
  2. Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, 153-8505, Tokyo, Japan
    Masaru Kitsuregawa
  3. Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
    Hong Va Leong

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Wang, D., Wang, G., Wu, Q., Chen, B., Zhao, Y. (2006). A New Method for Finding Approximate Repetitions in DNA Sequences. In: Yu, J.X., Kitsuregawa, M., Leong, H.V. (eds) Advances in Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11775300\_34

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