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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2007
Applicant:
Russell A. Brown, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Russell A. Brown, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/22 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Sequence alignment techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sparse data structure is constructed that represents respective character positions of matching character sets in input sequences. This sparse data structure may take a variety of forms, including a 'tree of trees.' Once constructed, each match is linked to at most one other match using a local application of a predetermined algorithm (e.g., a Smith-Waterman-type scoring algorithm). The links between matches are analyzed and a possible alignment or set of alignments is produced.