Hi Rolf. I tried putting a hash as you suggested. However for some of the paths the starts are the same while the end is different. Also I am new to graphs. Can you maybe direct me to a backtracking algorithm or graph module that will do this trick. I have tried answering your question below. motivation: This is not a homework. I am trying to stitch together alignments from strings. I know the start and end of the positions of the strings that i can recover from my data. And from this I have to generate the full string in the quickest way possible. data size: the data size can vary greatly depending on the size of my input string. data source: The starts are not unique. Even in my example, there are two chunks starting with 0 (0-200) and 90-1800). hope this answers your question

In reply to Re^2: search overlap paths by Anonymous Monk
in thread search overlap paths by Anonymous Monk

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