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Table 1 Examples of SeqS searches on DNA sequences totalling 170 MB. All searches took less than 4 seconds

From: Sequence Searcher: A Java tool to perform regular expression and fuzzy searches of multiple DNA and protein sequences

Fuzzy Search

Regular Expression Search

Search Pattern

No. of mismatches

No. of hits

Search Pattern

No. of hits

ACGTACGTA

0

44

ACGTACGT

216

ACGTACGTA

1

1808

ACGACGTA

108

ACGTACGTA

2

22124

ACGACGT

244

ACGTACGTACGT

1

24

ACGA [CGTA]GT

948

ACGTACGTACGT

2

672

ACGA.G{1,3}T

1272

ACGTACGTACGTACGT

3

80

ACGA.{1,50}G{1,3}T

23991