Faster Algorithms for Computing Maximal Multirepeats in Multiple Sequences

A repeat in a string is a substring that occurs more than once. A repeat is extendible if every occurrence of the repeat has an identical letter either on the left or on the right; otherwise, it is maximal. A multirepeat is a repeat that occurs at least mmin times (m⩾ 2) in each of at least q ⩾ 1 strings in a given set of strings. In this paper, we describe a family of efficient algorithms based on suffix arrays to compute maximal multirepeats …