Distribution of Aligned Letter Pairs in Optimal Alignments of Random Sequences

Considering the optimal alignment of two i.i.d. random sequences of length $n$, we show that when the scoring function is chosen randomly, almost surely the empirical distribution of aligned letter pairs in all optimal alignments converges to a unique limiting distribution as $n$ tends to infinity....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hauser, R, Matzinger, H
Format: Report
Published: Annals of Probability 2012