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    Area of Science:

    • Computational biology
    • Bioinformatics
    • Genomics

    Background:

    • Alignment-free sequence comparison is crucial for large-scale biological datasets due to the inefficiency of alignment-based methods.
    • Determining the optimal parameter 'k' for k-mer based alignment-free methods remains a challenge.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To address the challenge of selecting an optimal parameter 'k' in alignment-free sequence comparison.
    • To enhance existing alignment-free methods by incorporating multiple k-mer values simultaneously.

    Main Methods:

    • A novel method was developed that counts k-mer occurrences for various 'k' values within sequences.
    • Two weighting schemes, maximizing deviation and genetic algorithm, were applied to these k-mer counts.
    • The method was used to enhance three common alignment-free approaches: D2, D2S, and D2*.

    Main Results:

    • The enhanced alignment-free approaches demonstrated improved performance in all evaluated tasks.
    • Significant performance gains were observed in similarity search and functionally related regulatory sequence recognition.
    • The enhanced methods outperformed other common measures like Pcc, Eu, Ma, Ch, Kld, and Cos.

    Conclusions:

    • Simultaneously involving multiple k-mer values offers a robust strategy for improving alignment-free sequence comparison.
    • The developed weighting schemes effectively enhance the performance of established alignment-free methods.
    • This approach provides a more accurate and efficient tool for analyzing large biological sequence datasets.