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Visual comparison of strings
Humans are very good at identifying patterns visually. One of the first ways to compare biological sequences was to generate identity matrices and visualise them in a so called dot plot. The figure below shows an example of a dot plot comparing two related DNA sequencess from different organisms.
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Computing of a dot plot
At each position in the graph a