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Exact and Asymptotic Distribution of the Local Score of One i.i.d. Random Sequence

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Computational Biology (JOBIM 2000)

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We propose two new and complementary methods to assess the statistical significance of high scoring segments, within both long and short sequences. The numerical results show that these methods improve the work of Karlin et al. implemented in BLAST for the comparison of two sequences.

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  1. UFR SES, Département Mathématique et Informatique, Université de Toulouse II, 5 allée Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse cedex, France

    Sabine Mercier

  2. Analyse et Modèles Stochastiques UPRES A 6085, Université de Rouen, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan cedex, France

    Dominique Cellier & François Charlot

  3. Département OMIP, UMR INAPG-INRA 96021111, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, 16, rue Cl. Bernard, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France

    Jean-Jacques Daudin

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier, 161 rue Ada, 34392, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

    Olivier Gascuel

  2. Laboratoire d’Algorithmique Combinatoire, Institut Pasteur, 28, rue du Dr. Roux, 75724, Paris Cedex 15, France

    Marie-France Sagot

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Mercier, S., Cellier, D., Charlot, F., Daudin, JJ. (2001). Exact and Asymptotic Distribution of the Local Score of One i.i.d. Random Sequence. In: Gascuel, O., Sagot, MF. (eds) Computational Biology. JOBIM 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2066. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45727-5_7

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