After some observation I think neversaint want's to find possible combinations DNA-snippets.

That naturally means an upper bound for the length of the DNA, nobody expects a string reaching to the moon. Making the problem much easier to handle with a weighted graph, if he was able to express his task!

Theoretically speaking:

IMHO a really good solution would imply to analyze and (de)compose combinations of graphs. eg:

        Subgraph X
         \     /
 0 - N4 - a - b - N4 - *

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all paths from 0 to * will be P(0->a) x P(a->b) x P(b->*), i.e.

combinations of paths thru N4 times paths from a to b thru Subgraph X times N4.¹

As already sketched a BFS should be able to handle your "short-circuit problem" by assigning a simple distance degree to each vertex at a first phase. No big memory problem...

Cheers Rolf

1) IMHO it's not unlikely that DNA-snippets could be clustered in different groups...

In reply to Re^5: Short Circuiting DFS Graph Traversal by LanX
in thread Short Circuiting DFS Graph Traversal by Limbic~Region

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