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Revisiting $O(n \log \log n)$ chaining for anchored edit distance

arXiv:2606.03929v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Colinear chaining is a classical heuristic for sequence alignment: it enables scalable genome comparison and is a main component of many state-of-the-art read mappers based on seed-chain-extend. The earliest $O(n \log \log n)$ time algorithms by Eppstein et al. (J. ACM, 1992) chained $n$ fragments between two sequences $T$ and $Q$ while minimizing a gap cost based on the diagonal distance $\Delta_{\text{diag}}$ between consecutive fragments.