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A novel algorithm to find all sufficiently long repeating nucleotide substrings in one or several DNA sequences is proposed. The algorithm searches approximately matching strings very fast with given level of local error density. Some biological applications illustrate the method.
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This study was supported by a research grant No. 14.Y26.31.0004 from the Government of the Russian Federation (M.G. Sadovsky) and the grant from Russian Ministry of Education and Science \(N^{o}\) 1.8591.2017/VU (S.P. Tsarev).
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Tsarev, S.P., Senashova, M.Y., Sadovsky, M.G. (2018). Fast Algorithm for Vernier Search of Long Repeats in DNA Sequences with Bounded Error Density. In: Jansson, J., Martín-Vide, C., Vega-Rodríguez, M. (eds) Algorithms for Computational Biology. AlCoB 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10849. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91938-6_8
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