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Spectral Jaccard Similarity: A New Approach to Estimating Pairwise Sequence Alignments

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Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2020)

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We present Spectral Jaccard Similarity, a technique that combines min-hashing and spectral methods in order to efficiently estimate pairwise alignment between genomic reads.

T. Z. Baharav and G. M. Kamath—Contributed equally and listed alphabetically.

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  1. Parkhill, J., et al.: National collection of type cultures (NCTC)-3000. https://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/downloads/bacteria/nctc/

  2. Baharav, T., Kamath, G.M., Tse, D.N., Shomorony, I.: Spectral Jaccard Similarity: a new approach to estimating pairwise sequence alignments. BioRxiv (2019). https://doi.org/10.1101/800581. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/10/10/800581

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Baharav, T.Z., Kamath, G.M., Tse, D.N., Shomorony, I. (2020). Spectral Jaccard Similarity: A New Approach to Estimating Pairwise Sequence Alignments. In: Schwartz, R. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12074. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45257-5_15

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