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An Elegant Algorithm for the Construction of Suffix Arrays
The suffix array is a data structure that finds numerous applications in
string processing problems for both linguistic texts and biological data. It
has been introduced as a memory efficient alternative for suffix trees. The
suffix array consists of the sorted suffixes of a string. There are several
linear time suffix array construction algorithms (SACAs) known in the
literature. However, one of the fastest algorithms in practice has a worst case
run time of . The problem of designing practically and theoretically
efficient techniques remains open. In this paper we present an elegant
algorithm for suffix array construction which takes linear time with high
probability; the probability is on the space of all possible inputs. Our
algorithm is one of the simplest of the known SACAs and it opens up a new
dimension of suffix array construction that has not been explored until now.
Our algorithm is easily parallelizable. We offer parallel implementations on
various parallel models of computing. We prove a lemma on the -mers of a
random string which might find independent applications. We also present
another algorithm that utilizes the above algorithm. This algorithm is called
RadixSA and has a worst case run time of . RadixSA introduces an
idea that may find independent applications as a speedup technique for other
SACAs. An empirical comparison of RadixSA with other algorithms on various
datasets reveals that our algorithm is one of the fastest algorithms to date.
The C++ source code is freely available at
http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~man09004/radixSA.zi
Rust-Bio - a fast and safe bioinformatics library
We present Rust-Bio, the first general purpose bioinformatics library for the
innovative Rust programming language. Rust-Bio leverages the unique combination
of speed, memory safety and high-level syntax offered by Rust to provide a fast
and safe set of bioinformatics algorithms and data structures with a focus on
sequence analysis
Scalable Construction of Text Indexes with Thrill
The suffix array is the key to efficient solutions for myriads of string processing problems in different application domains, like data compression, data mining, or bioinformatics. With the rapid growth of available data, suffix array construction algorithms have to be adapted to advanced computational models such as external memory and distributed computing. In this article, we present five suffix array construction algorithms utilizing the new algorithmic big data batch processing framework Thrill, which allows scalable processing of input sizes on distributed systems in orders of magnitude that have not been considered before
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