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q-bio.QM2009★ 6 cited
Characterising the D2 statistic: word matches in biological sequences
Sylvain Foret, Susan R. Wilson, Conrad J. Burden
Word matches are often used in sequence comparison methods, either as a measure of sequence similarity or in the first search steps of algorithms such as BLAST or BLAT. The D2 stat…
q-bio.QM2008★ 22 cited
Empirical distribution of k-word matches in biological sequences
Sylvain Foret, Susan R. Wilson, Conrad J. Burden
This study focuses on an alignment-free sequence comparison method: the number of words of length k shared between two sequences, also known as the D_2 statistic. The advantages of…
math.PR2008★ 23 cited
Approximate word matches between two random sequences
Conrad J. Burden, Miriam R. Kantorovitz, Susan R. Wilson
Given two sequences over a finite alphabet , the statistic is the number of -letter word matches between the two sequences. This statistic is used in bioinfor…