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Journal of Theoretical Biology, 164(2), pp.261-269, Sept. 1993
L. Allison
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Abstract
Ukkonen's (pair-wise) string alignment technique is
extended to the problem of finding an optimal alignment for
three strings. The resulting algorithm has worst-case time-complexity
O(nd2) and space-complexity O(d3), where the
string lengths are n and d is the three-way edit-distance based on tree-costs.
In practice, the algorithm usually runs in O(n+d3) time.
The algorithm is particularly fast when the strings are similar,
in which case, d<<n.
Three-way alignment is an important special case in string alignment.
Each internal node in an unrooted, binary evolutionary-tree has
three neighbours. The algorithm presented can be used as
an iterative step in a heuristic multiple-alignment program for more
than three strings.
Paper here:
[doi:10.1006/jtbi.1993.1153][4/'03],
[.ps] &
[source-code],
[sciencedirect][4/'02].
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