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The.Algorithm.Design.Manual.Springer-Verlag.1998

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1.7.8 Longest Common Substring<br />

1.7.8 Longest Common Substring<br />

INPUT OUTPUT<br />

Input Description: A set S of strings S_1,...,S_n .<br />

Problem: What is the longest string c such that for each S_i , 1 \leq i \leq n , the characters of c appear as<br />

a scattered subsequence of S_i ?<br />

Implementations<br />

● CAP -- Contig Assembly Program (C) (rating 8)<br />

● Combinatorica (Mathematica) (rating 2)<br />

Related Problems<br />

● Approximate String Matching<br />

● Shortest Common Superstring<br />

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