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(No maintenance) OpenGene, core libraries for NGS data analysis and bioinformatics in Julia
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hamming distance #9

Open 6Youcai opened 8 years ago

6Youcai commented 8 years ago

In the function hamming_distance(s1,s2), len = min(length(s1), length(s2)), while Hamming distance are between two strings of equal length, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance

sfchen commented 8 years ago

Yes, this hamming_distance is generalized for comparing sequences with different length