Sequence Alignment of Words

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word1
unaccustomed
word2
baldfaced
{unaccustomed,baldfaced}
u
-
n
b
a
a
cc
--
ustom
ldfac
ed
ed
Sequence alignment is usually used to analyze DNA sequences. This is an example of applying the same operation to ordinary words. The built-in Mathematica function to do this is called SequenceAlignment and the words come from Mathematica's built-in dictionary.

Permanent Citation

Xiangdong Wen
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​"Sequence Alignment of Words"​
​http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SequenceAlignmentOfWords/​
​Wolfram Demonstrations Project​
​Published: March 7, 2011