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Global Alignment in linear space

The backtracing algorithm requires the entire matrix to be saved in memory. The space complexity consequently increases to O(nm). Hirschberg [4] developed a more practical space-reduction method for solving dynamic programming problems that reduces the required space from O(nm) to O(m) (for m<n).  
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Peer Itsik
2000-11-20