... the length of my strings (3k characters), and the number of elements (300) leads to prohibitive times for my search. It took a week just to check one element of the array against every other element.

Can you confirm this please. Your current method took 1 week to do 299 LCSs. Which as you have (300 * 299)/2 = 44,850 to do, this would take 150 weeks to perform the processing?

If so, I think I can help you. I believe I can get that down to 67 hours. But, as this is so much quicker (than both your current method and a couple of others I have tried), I would very much like to verify my program against some known data.

So, if you could let us/me have say 5 of your 3k strings, and the LCS that your current method finds + the time taken, I could check what I have against your findings before exposing any stupidities to the world.

TIA.

Alternatively, I could provide my test data for you to try.

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In reply to Re: Search for identical substrings by BrowserUk
in thread Search for identical substrings by bioMan

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