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Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on April 29, 2004
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth279
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Received January 5, 2004
Revised April 17, 2004
Accepted April 18, 2004

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Efficient combination of multiple word models for improved sequence comparison

Xiaoqiu Huang 1*, Liang Ye 1, Hui-Hsien Chou 2, I-Hsuan Yang 3, Kun-Mao Chao 3

1 Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1040, USA
2 Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1040, USA; Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1040, USA
3 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: xqhuang{at}cs.iastate.edu.


  Abstract

Motivation: Studies of efficient and sensitive sequence comparison methods are driven by a need to find homologous regions of weak similarity between large genomes.

Results: We describe an improved method for finding similar regions between two sets of DNA sequences. The new method generalizes existing methods by locating word matches between sequences under two or more word models and extending word matches into high-scoring segment pairs (HSPs). The method is implemented as a computer program named DDS2. Experimental results show that DDS2 can find more HSPs by using several word models than by using one word model.

Availability: The DDS2 program is freely available for academic use in binary code form at http://bioinformatics.iastate.edu/aat/align/align.html and in source code form from the corresponding author.


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