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Genomes as Permutations
Guillaume Fertin, Anthony Labarre, Irena Rusu, Éric Tannier, Steéphane Vialette
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Abstract
Permutations were the first mathematical objects to serve as formal models for studying arrangements of DNA fragments among several species. This chapter discusses the following: the symmetric group; the cycles of a permutation; signed permutations; distances on permutation groups; circular permutations; and first measures of similarity between permutations.