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Record W4414624944 · doi:10.1093/bib/bbaf512

A novel pairwise sequence alignment algorithm for similarity search in massive datasets

2025· article· en· W4414624944 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBriefings in Bioinformatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAlgorithms and Data Compression
Canadian institutionsPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPairwise comparisonMultiple sequence alignmentPreprocessorSequence (biology)Sequence alignmentSimilarity (geometry)Alignment-free sequence analysisRange (aeronautics)

Abstract

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Advances in sequencing technologies have resulted in the production of a huge volume of data. Since the pairwise sequence alignment plays an essential role in comparing sequencing data, various algorithms have been developed. Among the previously suggested algorithms, the basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) is currently employed in a wide range of biological applications, largely due to its low time and memory complexity. However, not only BLAST but also other improved sequence alignment algorithms may fail to produce accurate results, therefore, more efficient algorithms can be highly advantageous. In the present study, we introduce a novel algorithm for sequence alignment (NASA) consisting of preprocessing and aligning steps. In the preprocessing step, the positions of residues are determined within a provided nucleotide or peptide sequence, resulting in seeking only informative regions. In the aligning step, based on a constant number of comparisons, the sequence similarity score is calculated between two sequences in a linear time and memory orders. To evaluate NASA, a large volume of sequencing data was analyzed and the outcomes were compared with other algorithms. The results showed that NASA outperforms other basic algorithms in terms of the elapsed time, required memory, system resource utilization, and alignment score precision. Collectively, NASA might be a promising method for retrieving similar sequences from large datasets.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.975
Threshold uncertainty score0.711

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.305
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it