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The Sequence Assembly problem

Problem 5   Given a set of sub-strings, find the minimal string containing all of the members of the set.

Although this problem may seem simple, it is known to be NP-Complete. However, there are greedy algorithms which perform fairly well in practice.

Itshack Pe`er
1998-12-27