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Mathematics and the Human Genome Part 2
Author: Joseph Malkevitch
At the end of Part I of this series we posed the question of how far apart (distant) the two "DNA sequences" ACTTCGAGG and CACTCCGAGTT are? How can one find the distance between two strings?

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Biology, genetics
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