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Mismatch sampling

  • Raphaël Clifford
  • , Klim Efremenko
  • , Benny Porat
  • , Ely Porat
  • , Amir Rothschild
  • University of Bristol
  • Bar-Ilan University
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

We consider the well known problem of pattern matching under the Hamming distance. Previous approaches have shown how to count the number of mismatches efficiently, especially when a bound is known for the maximum Hamming distance. Our interest is different in that we wish collect a random sample of mismatches of fixed size at each position in the text. Given a pattern p of length m and a text t of length n, we show how to sample with high probability c mismatches where possible from every alignment of p and t in O((c∈+∈logn) (n∈+∈mlogm)logm) time. Further, we guarantee that the mismatches are sampled uniformly and can therefore be seen as representative of the types of mismatches that occur.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-108
Number of pages10
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5280 LNCS
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event15th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2008 - Melbourne. VIC, Australia
Duration: 10 Nov 200812 Nov 2008

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grant 2006334 and Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant 1484/08 as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Funding

This work was supported in part by the Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grant 2006334 and Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant 1484/08 as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

FundersFunder number
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2006334
Israel Science Foundation1484/08

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