New powerful statistics for alignment-free sequence comparison under a pattern transfer model.
Alignment-free sequence comparison is widely used for comparing gene regulatory regions and for identifying horizontally transferred genes. Recent studies on the power of a widely used alignment-free comparison statistic D2 and its variants D*2 and D(s)2 showed that their power approximates a limit...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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