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ArticleAlgorithms for molecular biology : AMB2025

b-move: faster lossless approximate pattern matching in a run-length compressed index.

Lore Depuydt, Luca Renders, Simon Van de Vyver, Lennart Veys, Travis Gagie, Jan Fostier

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Article in Algorithms for molecular biology : AMB, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Lore DepuydtGhent University-imec, Technologiepark 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8517-0479
Luca RendersGhent University-imec, Technologiepark 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2244-1427
Simon Van de VyverGhent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7810-2174
Lennart VeysGhent University, Technologiepark 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium.
Travis GagieDalhousie University, 6050 University Avenue, PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3689-327X
Jan FostierGhent University-imec, Technologiepark 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium. Jan.Fostier@UGent.be.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9994-8269

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Personal and panel references for improved alignmentR01HG011392 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LANGMEAD, BENJAMIN THOMAS · 2020 to 2025
$4.2M
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 1117322NFonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 1SE7822NNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada RGPIN-07185-2020NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG011392NIH HHS R01HG011392
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Abstract

backgroundDue to the increasing availability of high-quality genome sequences, pan-genomes are gradually replacing single consensus reference genomes in many bioinformatics pipelines to better capture genetic diversity. Traditional bioinformatics tools using the FM-index face memory limitations with such large genome collections. Recent advancements in run-length compressed indices like Gagie et al.'s r-index and Nishimoto and Tabei's move structure, alleviate memory constraints but focus primarily on backward search for MEM-finding. Arakawa et al.'s br-index initiates complete approximate pattern matching using bidirectional search in run-length compressed space, but with significant computational overhead due to complex memory access patterns.

resultsWe introduce b-move, a novel bidirectional extension of the move structure, enabling fast, cache-efficient, lossless approximate pattern matching in run-length compressed space. It achieves bidirectional character extensions up to 7 times faster than the br-index, closing the performance gap with FM-index-based alternatives. For locating occurrences, b-move performs

conclusionsb-move proves practical and scalable for pan-genome indexing and querying. We provide a C++ implementation of b-move, supporting efficient lossless approximate pattern matching including locate functionality, available at https://github.com/biointec/b-move under the AGPL-3.0 license.

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Approximate pattern matchingBidirectional searchCache efficiencyFM-indexLossless alignmentMove structurePan-genomicsr-index

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PMCPMC12345024

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