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# Distribution of Aligned Letter Pairs in Optimal Alignments of Random Sequences

```@article{Hauser2012DistributionOA,
title={Distribution of Aligned Letter Pairs in Optimal Alignments of Random Sequences},
author={R. Hauser and Heinrich Matzinger},
journal={arXiv: Probability},
year={2012}
}```
• Published 2012
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Probability
Considering the optimal alignment of two i.i.d. random sequences of length \$n\$, we show that when the scoring function is chosen randomly, almost surely the empirical distribution of aligned letter pairs in all optimal alignments converges to a unique limiting distribution as \$n\$ tends to infinity. This result is interesting because it helps understanding the microscopic path structure of a special type of last passage percolation problem with correlated weights, an area of long-standing open… Expand
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