@InProceedings{alzamel_et_al:LIPIcs.WABI.2018.21, author = {Alzamel, Mai and Ayad, Lorraine A. K. and Bernardini, Giulia and Grossi, Roberto and Iliopoulos, Costas S. and Pisanti, Nadia and Pissis, Solon P. and Rosone, Giovanna}, title = {{Degenerate String Comparison and Applications}}, booktitle = {18th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2018)}, pages = {21:1--21:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-082-8}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {113}, editor = {Parida, Laxmi and Ukkonen, Esko}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2018.21}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-93236}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2018.21}, annote = {Keywords: degenerate strings, generalised degenerate strings, elastic-degenerate strings, string comparison, palindromes} }