Forbidden factors and fragment assembly
In this paper methods and results related to the notion of minimal forbidden words are applied to the fragment assembly problem. The fragment assembly problem can be formulated, in its simplest form, as follows: reconstruct a word from a given set of substrings (fragments) of a word . We introduce an hypothesis involving the set of fragments and the maximal length of the minimal forbidden factors of . Such hypothesis allows us to reconstruct uniquely the word from the set in linear...