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Contents<br />

Foreword ..........................................................<br />

Preface ............................................................<br />

vii<br />

ix<br />

Acknowledgments .................................................. xiii<br />

About the Authors ..................................................<br />

xv<br />

1 Introduction ................................................... 1<br />

1.1 BiologicalMotivations ...................................... 1<br />

1.2 Alignment: A Model for <strong>Sequence</strong> <strong>Comparison</strong> . . . .............. 2<br />

1.2.1 Definition . . . ....................................... 2<br />

1.2.2 AlignmentGraph .................................... 3<br />

1.3 Scoring Alignment . . ....................................... 7<br />

1.4 Computing <strong>Sequence</strong> Alignment . . ............................ 8<br />

1.4.1 Global Alignment Problem ............................ 9<br />

1.4.2 Local Alignment Problem . ............................ 10<br />

1.5 Multiple Alignment . . ....................................... 11<br />

1.6 What Alignments Are Meaningful? . . . . . . ..................... 12<br />

1.7 OverviewoftheBook....................................... 12<br />

1.8 Bibliographic Notes and Further Reading . ..................... 13<br />

Part I. Algorithms and Techniques ................................... 15<br />

2 Basic Algorithmic Techniques ................................... 17<br />

2.1 AlgorithmsandTheirComplexity............................. 18<br />

2.2 Greedy Algorithms . . ....................................... 18<br />

2.2.1 Huffman Codes . . . . . . ................................ 19<br />

2.3 Divide-and-Conquer Strategies . . . ............................ 21<br />

2.3.1 Mergesort .......................................... 21<br />

2.4 Dynamic Programming . . . . . . ................................ 23<br />

2.4.1 Fibonacci Numbers . . ................................ 24<br />

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