COMPUTATION OF THE NORMALIZED COMPRESSION DISTANCE OF DNA SEQUENCES USING A MIXTURE OF FINITE-CONTEXT MODELS

Diogo Pratas, Armando J. Pinho, Sara P. Garcia

2012

Abstract

A compression-based similarity measure assesses the similarity between two objects using the number of bits needed to describe one of them when a description of the other is available. For being effective, these measures have to rely on “normal” compression algorithms, roughly meaning that they have to be able to build an internal model of the data being compressed. Often, we find that good “normal” compression methods are slow and those that are fast do not provide acceptable results. In this paper, we propose a method for measuring the similarity of DNA sequences that balances these two goals. The method relies on a mixture of finite-context models and is compared with other methods, including XM, the state-of-the-art DNA compression technique. Moreover, we present a comprehensive study of the inter-chromosomal similarity of the human genome.

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Pratas D., J. Pinho A. and P. Garcia S. (2012). COMPUTATION OF THE NORMALIZED COMPRESSION DISTANCE OF DNA SEQUENCES USING A MIXTURE OF FINITE-CONTEXT MODELS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-90-4, pages 308-311. DOI: 10.5220/0003780203080311


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@conference{bioinformatics12,
author={Diogo Pratas and Armando J. Pinho and Sara P. Garcia},
title={COMPUTATION OF THE NORMALIZED COMPRESSION DISTANCE OF DNA SEQUENCES USING A MIXTURE OF FINITE-CONTEXT MODELS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={308-311},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003780203080311},
isbn={978-989-8425-90-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - COMPUTATION OF THE NORMALIZED COMPRESSION DISTANCE OF DNA SEQUENCES USING A MIXTURE OF FINITE-CONTEXT MODELS
SN - 978-989-8425-90-4
AU - Pratas D.
AU - J. Pinho A.
AU - P. Garcia S.
PY - 2012
SP - 308
EP - 311
DO - 10.5220/0003780203080311