Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules: The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison

David Sankoff et al. (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0201078090 / ISBN 13: 9780201078091

Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA, 1983

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Book is gently used with some wear. The boards have some edge rubbing (with loss of some surface color). Tightly bound copy with clean interior having no markings, writing, underlining, or highlighting in margins or text block. Inv. # 11627.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules: The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201078090
• ISBN 13: 9780201078091
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good -
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Time Warps, String Edits and Macromolecules is a young classic in computational science. The computational perspective is that of sequence processing, in particular the problem of recognizing related sequences. The book is the first, and still best compilation of papers explaining how to measure distance between sequences, and how to compute that measure effectively. This is called string distance, Levenshtein distance, or edit distance. The book contains lucid explanations of the basic techniques; well-annotated examples of applications; mathematical analysis of its computational (algorithmic) complexity; and extensive discussion of the variants needed for weighted measures, timed sequences (songs), applications to continuous data, comparison of multiple sequences and extensions to tree-structures. This theory finds applications in molecular biology, speech recognition, analysis of bird song and error correcting in computer software.

Book Description

Time Warps, String Edits and Macromolecules is a young classic in computational science, scientific analysis from a computational perspective. The book is the first, and still best compilation of papers explaining how to measure distance between sequences, and how to compute that measure effectively. The book contains lucid explanations of the basic techniques, well-annotated examples of applications, and mathematical analysis of its computational (algorithmic) complexity.