Tuesday 8 November 2016

Edit Distance Alignment

This problem builds on a previous one called Edit Distance, for which you can find a solution here. In that problem we were asked to find the minimum number of changes needed to transform a string s into a string t. In this problem, we are asked once again to find this number (the edit distance), but this time we should also print the two augmented strings representing an optimal alignment of s and t.

To do this I went back to my solution of the previous problem and added some code to pick out one of the possible optimal alignments from the matrix formed by the existing program. The code is a bit messy, but for those who are interested it it is available on my GitHub.

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