Identifying and Avoiding DNA sequences
Imagine that you want to create a drug that attacks the DNA of one
class of organisms, yet is harmless with respect to another organism's DNA.
For example, if a human is infected with some bacterium, one might want to
have a drug which is lethal for the bacterium and its close relatives
but not so lethal for the host (legalities and ethics prevail). This work
describes approximate algorithms for identifying DNA sequences which are
approximately shared amongst a group of organisms, but absent from the DNA
of another group.
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