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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics

Background:

  • Existing algorithms for shortest absent words in DNA data are limited.
  • Current methods generate generic absent words by extending shortest ones, missing richer patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define and generate a new class of absent words, termed minimal absent words.
  • To provide a more comprehensive set of absent words for DNA data analysis.
  • To explore the relationship between absent words and data structure.

Main Methods:

  • Defined minimal absent words based on their non-absent property upon character removal.
  • Developed an algorithm for generating minimal absent words.
  • Demonstrated practical near-linear time performance for the algorithm.

Main Results:

  • Introduced minimal absent words, a class larger than shortest absent words but smaller than generic ones.
  • The number of minimal absent words grows linearly with string size, unlike exponentially growing generic absent words.
  • An implementation of the minimal absent word generation algorithm is publicly available.

Conclusions:

  • Minimal absent words offer a potentially more useful and manageable set for applications requiring diverse absent word patterns.
  • The study enhances understanding of absent word structures in DNA data.
  • The developed algorithm and concepts complement existing research in the field.