Re:Before cancer kills, it cheats
by vanderZwan on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:20PM
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> (I don’t think this compressed state can be examined, but compression algorithms are seriously under appreciated)
I once attended a lecture at a physics conference by a guy who basically used gzip to do sequence alignment (using compressibility as a way to measure Kolmogorov complexity). Might be interesting to you. The title was: Blasting and Zipping: Sequence Alignment and Mutual Information
I once attended a lecture at a physics conference by a guy who basically used gzip to do sequence alignment (using compressibility as a way to measure Kolmogorov complexity). Might be interesting to you. The title was: Blasting and Zipping: Sequence Alignment and Mutual Information