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alignment-free sequence comparison: a standalone construct

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Bioinformatics

comparing sequences by shared word or k-mer composition instead of building an alignment.

In bioinformatics, alignment-free sequence comparison refers to comparing sequences by shared word or k-mer composition instead of building an alignment. This meaning comes from Vinga (2003) in Bioinformatics.[1]

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References

Vinga, S., & Almeida, J. (2003). Alignment-free sequence comparison: a review. Bioinformatics, 19(4), 513-523. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btg005

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