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Given strings S 1, S 2, and a regular expression R, we introduce regular expression constrained sequence alignment as the problem of finding the maximum alignment score between S 1 and S 2 over all alignments such that in these alignments there exists a segment where some substring s 1 of S 1 is aligned with some substring s 2 of S 2, and both s 1 and s 2 match R, i.e. s 1,s 2 ∈ L(R) where L(R) is the regular language described by R. A motivation for the problem is that protein sequences can be aligned in a way that known motifs guide the alignments. We present an O(nmr) time algorithm for the regular expression constrained sequence alignment problem where n, and m are the lengths of S 1, and S 2, respectively, and r is in the order of the size of the transition function of a finite automaton M that we create from a nondeterministic finite automaton N accepting L(R). M contains O(t 2) states if N has t states.
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Arslan, A.N. (2005). Regular Expression Constrained Sequence Alignment. In: Apostolico, A., Crochemore, M., Park, K. (eds) Combinatorial Pattern Matching. CPM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3537. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11496656_28
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