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The scientific community is engaged in an ongoing, concerted effort to sequence the corn (also known as maize) genome. This genome is approximately 2.5 billion nucleotides long with an estimated 65-80team of university and private laboratory researchers under the auspices of NSF/USDA/DOE is working towards deciphering the majority of the sequence information including all genes, determining their order and orientation, and anchoring them to genetic/physical maps. In this talk, I will present some of the combinatorial problems that arise in this context and outline the role of graph, string and parallel algorithms in solving them.
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Aluru, S. (2007). The Combinatorics of Sequencing the Corn Genome. In: Lin, G. (eds) Computing and Combinatorics. COCOON 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4598. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73545-8_1
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