Problem 79. DNA N-Gram Distribution

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Given a string s and a number n, find the most frequently occurring n-gram in the string, where the n-grams can begin at any point in the string. This comes up in DNA analysis, where the 3-base reading frame for a codon can begin at any point in the sequence.

So for

 s = 'AACTGAACG'

and

 n = 3

we get the following n-grams (trigrams):

 AAC, ACT, CTG, TGA, GAA, AAC, ACG

Since AAC appears twice, then the answer, hifreq, is AAC. There will always be exactly one highest frequency n-gram.

This problem was originally inspired by a MATLAB Newsgroup discussion.

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E Chang on 22 Oct 2018

It should be noted that spaces should be ignored or else test suites 3 and 5 fail.

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Ramoflaple on 28 Jul 2015

good use of 'hankel' function

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danteliujie on 23 Apr 2019

cool solution

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Claudio Gelmi on 28 Feb 2013

Sorry about this, but I got stuck and I want to learn how to do it. After looking at several solutions, I found my mistake and was able to create my own solution :)

Yao-Siang Su on 8 Dec 2013

What happens if the test suite changed in the future?

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Gwendolyn Fischer on 11 Dec 2012

This solution is not correct in general, as the way of using hankel here, generates n-1 fake fragments

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Peter Wittenberg on 31 Mar 2012

Clever usage of the Hankel matrix. I don't automatically think of the Hankel for this application, but it really works well. Thanks - I've learned something

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David Young on 2 Feb 2012

What's the point of a 'solution' like this? It passes the test suite, but in what way was it interesting for you to write it?

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