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Forbidden Factors and Fragment Assembly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2002

F. Mignosi ,
A. Restivo  and
M. Sciortino
F. Mignosi
Affiliation:
University of Palermo, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy; ([email protected])
A. Restivo
Affiliation:
University of Palermo, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy; ([email protected])
M. Sciortino
Affiliation:
University of Palermo, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy; ([email protected])
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Abstract

In this paper methods and results related to the notion of minimal forbidden words are applied to the fragment assembly problem. The fragment assembly problem can be formulated, in its simplest form, as follows: reconstruct a word w from a given set I of substrings (fragments) of a word w. We introduce an hypothesis involving the set of fragments I and the maximal length m(w) of the minimal forbidden factors of w. Such hypothesis allows us to reconstruct uniquely the word w from the set I in linear time. We prove also that, if w is a word randomly generated by a memoryless source with identical symbol probabilities, m(w) is logarithmic with respect to the size of w. This result shows that our reconstruction algorithm is suited to approach the above problem in several practical applications e.g. in the case of DNA sequences.

Keywords

Factor automatonminimal forbidden factorfragment assembly.
Type
Research Article
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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 35 , Issue 6: A tribute to Aldo de Luca , November 2001 , pp. 565 - 577
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2001

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